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D.C. Barclay

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Before pretending to be a writer, David Barclay spent almost 30 years working in IT. He spent over 7 years working on his debut novel, a work of humorous fiction - a description that he is 50% willing to stand behind - thus achieving the equivalent of fewer than 30 words per day, allowing each individual word to be carefully crafted in a labour of love that was certain to produce a masterpiece of literature. You would think.

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Easter Eggs (Book 3)

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And so to the Easter eggs in the third book, The Dead Do Lie...

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I started with a few really obvious ones, when Gareth, Marv's old friend, is described as the "the love child spawned of an unholy threesome between Tom Jones, Yoda and Ron Weasley". Unsurprisingly, three Tom Jones song titles are hidden around here: Delilah, Sexbomb, and It's Not Unusual. (I use the te Read more of this blog post »
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