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The Big Busk

London, 1984. Busking is war.

A Covent Garden blues band challenges a dangerous rival for Leicester Square’s prime pitch. Duncan McCowan’s novel draws on his own years performing with The King Biscuits.

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The Big Busk by Duncan McCowan

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