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Buy the new John Mole book "I was a Potato Oligarch" and donate to the SVP!
Best selling author John Mole is currently offering signed 1st edition copies of his new book "I was a Potato Oligarch:Tavels and Travails in the New Russia" for the special price of £7.99 plus £2 postage and packaging.
If you buy the book online via ebay 35% of the net profit will be donated to the SVP Welcome Home project, a cooperation between the St. Vincent de Paul Society (Westminster Cathedral), the Passage Day Centre and Hostel for Homeless People and the Cardinal Hume Centre and Hostel for Homeless Young People to help their clients and others settle into new homes with material support, befriending and mentoring. The project works closely with the St Vincent de Paul Community Shop in Hackney.
About the book...
Scientists and Tolkeinists, Eurocrats and bureaucrats, hopeful oligarchs, hopeless biznismyen, muggers, conmen, mafia and (extra)ordinary Russians struggling to survive in a world turned inside out. And John Mole setting up a baked potato take-away. I Was a Potato Oligarch is bestselling author John Mole's eye-wateringly funny and true story of his travels and travails in the New Russia.
"funny and perceptive, and gives a vivid and sympathetic picture of what Russians are really like, and how they manage to survive and enjoy themselves in their often chaotic country." Rodric Braithwaite - British ambassador to Moscow 1988-1992. Author of Moscow 1941
About the author...
John Mole is the author of It's All Greek to Me! He has had a varied international career, from banking in the Middle East to harvesting water weed In Africa to jacket potato restaurants in Russia. He is also a well-known author of comic novels and the perennial bestseller Mind Your Manners.
[10.6.08]