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Gavin Parsons

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Gavin has a sluggish survival gene. It's a wonder he is still here. Find that hard to believe? Well the first plane he went up in he jumped out of (at 12,000ft); he once threw himself down a hill on his head and shoulder (when he was supposed to be on a bike) and then some idiot let him go underwater.

As a diver, he's been attacked by the wussiest named shark in the world; swum around a melting iceberg; been lost in a shipwreck with 360,000 bombs; and was the first British photographer to swim with tiger sharks in South Africa without a cage.

Gavin has had an eventful life. He's watched the Bornean rainforest burn; he's seen the end of dancing bears in India and held the hand of an old Javan gibbon as she waited to die alone.

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Mrs Bowden's Chair by Gavin Parsons Well I have been away a long time. I did a full edit of Bring me the Head of Turlington Jones, plus wrote another short story in the collection and have started on the 2nd book in the series.

That book is call Mrs Bowden's Chair. PLease check it out. It's a short story (just 7 chapters) and is a charming tale for adults mainly to read.

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