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  2. The Man Who Died Twice (novel) - Wikipedia

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    464. ISBN. 9780241425428. Preceded by. The Thursday Murder Club. Followed by. The Bullet That Missed. The Man Who Died Twice is a murder mystery written by the British comedian and presenter Richard Osman. It is the sequel to The Thursday Murder Club and was published by Penguin Random House 's Viking Press in September 2021 and as an audiobook ...

  3. Jayne Middlemiss - Wikipedia

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    Jayne Middlemiss (born 3 February 1971) [citation needed] is an English television and radio presenter. She began presenting music television shows including The O Zone and Top of the Pops in the mid-1990s, as well as other television and radio shows, including on BBC Radio 6 Music. She has won both Celebrity MasterChef and reality show ...

  4. Philip Middlemiss - Wikipedia

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    Actor. Years active. 1986–2014, 2024. Philip Middlemiss (born Philip Sean Lloyd; 19 June 1963) is an English television, radio actor and businessman, best known for playing bookmaker Des Barnes in ITV 's Coronation Street between 1990 and 1998. The character was killed off, ordered by Brian Park, who was the programme's producer at the time.

  5. Vicious Circle (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Rushed to hospital, their baby daughter, named Catherine Cayla Bannock-Cross, is saved by caesarean section. Hazel dies of brain damage the next day. Hector believes the murder is the result of the blood feud from surviving members of the family of Hadji Sheikh Mohammed Khan Tippoo Tip (the engineer of Cayla's kidnapping, killed in " Those in ...

  6. Zadie Smith - Wikipedia

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    Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English [ 1] novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel , White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010. [ 2]

  7. List of Top of the Pops presenters - Wikipedia

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    Elayne Smith was an underground club DJ and compere who started hosting Channel 4 late-night variety show The 291 Club just a few weeks before the revamp. Smith left after just two episodes to concentrate on The 291 Club and was replaced in March 1992 by Femi Oke who was working at BBC Radio 5 , whilst 17-year-old Mark Franklin was picked from local radio station BBC Radio Wiltshire .

  8. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Wikipedia

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    Followed by. Blue Shoes and Happiness (2006) In the Company of Cheerful Ladies is the sixth in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe . Work and personal worries, and the reappearance of her cruel first husband, threaten ...

  9. 1968 New Year Honours - Wikipedia

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    1968 New Year Honours. The New Year Honours 1968 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1967 to celebrate the year passed and mark the ...