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Tony Levy

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Born

in London, The United Kingdom

Website

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Nonfiction, Biography, Memoirs., Mystery & Thrillers.true Life,, Biographies & Memoirs

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My Wife (my best friend), my grandchildren, Winston Churchill, British ...more

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I am a 74 year-old Tottenham born family man and former prison officer.

After spending 25 years in the UK’s prison service, and having become increasingly disillusioned with stifling modern prison service politics and practices, in 2008 I took my pension pot and ran, moving to Spain to spend my early retirement in the sun. My wife and I, however, have now moved back to the UK temporarily due to the current economic climate. This autobiography A Turnkey or Not? is about my prison service life is my first book.

My second book has just been published on Amazon, it is about my last working career after having to go back to the UK during the recession I obtained work as a security officer at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
This book El Dorado? No! Hea ...more

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Average rating: 4.58 · 76 ratings · 46 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Road to "L" Do you remember your driving instructor? They sure remember"You" 4.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — 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
	A Turnkey or Not? 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 6 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
	El Dorado? No! Heathrow Airport 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	EIGHT 'TIL CHRISTMAS by Dori Klaproth, T.M. Lazar (Goodreads Author), Tony Levy (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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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The Road to "L"

The Road to 'L' Do you remember your driving instructor? Well, they sure remember you. This is My next book and its title is The Road to 'L' I have just completed this my next book which is a humorous memoir. Set in Central London during the period 1981 to 1983 when I was a driving instructor in London working for The British School of Motoring. Pitched somewhere between the old English classic ca Read more of this blog post »

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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
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― Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

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