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Leonard's Log - Again

By: Hugh Leonard
Publisher: Brophy Books
Published: January 1988
Pages: 121
Categories: Humor
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780907960690

A collection of acerbic journalistic pieces from the pen of Hugh Leonard. First published in his Sunday Independent column over the preceding twelve months.

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