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A history of occult tarot from the 19th century to the 1970s.

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'... entertaining and enlightening... Watkins plays Aubrey to the many remarkable personalities who populated old Fleet Street, defining this lost world through a series of splendid pen portraits.'- Matthew d'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph; 'This short book is the finest account of journalism I have ever read. Literate members of the public should by it because it is the wittiest book of the year. Undergraduate students of media studies should buy it without fail, for there is more practical information in it than in a hundred lectures...'- Brian Walden, Literary Review; 'I chuckled over every page of this splendid book, the genius of which lies in the detail...'- Peregrine Worsthorne, Independent on Sunday; 'A hilarious read.' - Robert Blake, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year; 'A Short Walk Down Fleet Street... is an incomparable portrait of a particular era and way of life, and is impossible to recommend too highly.' - Peter Oborne, Sunday Express

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Alan Watkins was born in 1933 and educated at Amman Valley Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He has also published The Liberal Dilemma, Brief Lives, Sportswriter's Eye, A Slight Case of Libel, A Conservative Coup, The Road to Number 10 and, jointly, The Making of the Prime Minister 1970.

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