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Mark Playne

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Born

London, The United Kingdom

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https://www.markplayne.com

Genre

Travel, Nonfiction, Biography

Member Since

April 2019

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Three formats, one instinct.

Mark Playne is a British filmmaker, author and self-confessed reluctant investigative journalist. After graduating from Manchester film school, he turned down the safer route of TV scriptwriting and instead spent years travelling the world as a street-trading artisan, an experience that sharpened his instinct for reading people and situations long before it shaped his writing.

At first glance, Playne's output looks scattered across three unrelated shelves: true story, non-fiction and fiction.

His debut, 3 Seconds in Bogotá, is a true-life memoir of survival in Pablo Escobar's Colombia.

AI & I is a non-fiction, question-led investigation conducted in dialogue with artificial intelligence.

The MoMo series was writte ...more

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	3 Seconds in Bogotá (1st edition) 3.61 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 Seconds in Bogotá - updated & extended 2nd edition 4.41 avg rating — 44 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MoMo - The Egg 4.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MoMo - The Caterpillar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MoMo: The Incredible Adventures of Me, my Duck and a Man called Wolof 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MoMo - The Butterfly: The Children's story that adults love - (final instalment of a four book serial) (The Incredible Adventures of Me, My Duck and a Man called Wolof. 4) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AI & I : Cracking The Covid Code - An AI Empowered Forensic Investigation (AI & I Investigate Book 1) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AI & I: Cracking The Covid Code - An AI Empowered Forensic Investigation: Cracking The Covid Code - An AI Empowered Forensic Investigation: Cracking The Covid Code 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AI & I - Cracking the Covid Code: Part 1 - The Architecture of Deception - AUDIO 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 Secondi a Bogotá: Un'avventura in Sudamerica. Un viaggio bello da morire. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Mark Playne rated a book it was amazing The Rocky Road by Richard East	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Rocky Road is a book about the choices we make and the consequences. Richard does not present himself as a hero or a victim, more as someone trying to stay afloat as events unfold, some of them his own doing, others beyond his control. I spent par ...more
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The Rocky Road is a book about the choices we make and the consequences. Richard does not present himself as a hero or a victim, more as someone trying to stay afloat as events unfold, some of them his own doing, others beyond his control. I spent par ...more
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