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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Billy Liar
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(1959)
Novel by Keith Waterhouse about an undertaker's clerk in a northern town, a daydreamer who escapes from his drab life into a world of fantasy. A play based on it (by Waterhouse and Willis Hall) was staged in 1960 with Albert Finney; and in 1963 it was made into a film, directed by John Schlesinger, with Tom Courtenay as Billy.
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