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From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20070102
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BRIAN JACQUES was born into a Liverpool Irish family on the eve of World War II and grew up near the docks.

He began reading at an early age and was specially keen on adventure stories by writers such as Daniel Defoe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Rice Burroughs. From the age ...

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