Sign Of The Times


What's the world coming to when there is a "Tragic Life Stories" section in the books department of WH Smith? Good to know it's not all doom and gloom out there...

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  1. Why do they all have animals on the covers? Weird!

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  2. you'd have thought it would be a bigger section.

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  3. @Delicious: Yeah, the animals was the first thing I noticed too. They all seem to be cats and dogs. I have no idea what these books would be about, and I'd rather not take the time to read them.

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  4. They're known in the trade as the 'boo-fucking-hoo' books. One man, Andrew Groves, writes a large number of them.

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