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Vaughan Humphries

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in Lower Hutt, New Zealand

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Fiction, Biography

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January 2011

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Vaughan Humphries examines what happens when ordinary competence becomes valuable to systems that do not explain themselves. His work is concerned with moral drift, restraint, and the quiet transfer of responsibility, often shaped by dry, dark humour and close observation. He is the author of Grumpy Young Man and the novel Like a Shag on a Rock. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 21 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Like a Shag on a Rock 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Grumpy Young Man: the incoherent mutterings of a humanitarian misanthrope it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	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
	Stone the Crows: The Tethered Man (A Man in Flight Book 1) 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
	Stone the Crows: The Useful Idiot (A Man in Flight Book 2) 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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101 Britannian Nights

Praise be to God for the blessing He has bestowed upon me, and I humbly submit myself to you as His messenger for the purposes of the lesson that is about to follow. For it is well recognised that experience is the cruellest of all teachers for it sets the test first and teaches the lesson second. It is from my experience and from that of my contemporaries I sincerely hope tha

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