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Title: MEMOIRS OF A DIPPER
By: Nell Leyshon
Format: Hardback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 024118424X
ISBN 13: 9780241184240
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 4 June, 2015
Pages: 320
Description: Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again.
Synopsis: "A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real." (The Times). 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.' Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also fiercely intelligent - he often knows more about the antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, and is confident in his ability to trick his way out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he falls for Mandy...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Fig Tree
Returns: Returnable
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