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Alan Armstrong started volunteering in a friend's bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano's. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor of Forget Not Mee & My Garden, a collection of the letters of Peter Collinson, the 18th-century mercer and amateur botanist. He lives with his wife, Martha, a painter, in Massachusetts.

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Average rating: 3.42 · 591 ratings · 130 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Whittington by Alan Armstrong, S.D. Schindler (Illustrator) 342 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Racing the Moon by Alan Armstrong, Tim Jessell (Illustrator) 320 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Raleigh's Page by Alan Armstrong, Tim Jessell 400 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	My rating:
	Off in Zora 300 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Divine Justice 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Life in Verse 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Stability And Change In An English County Town: A Social Study Of York 1801 51 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kiwi Cookbook 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1980	My rating:
	The Lost Daughter 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
― Alan Armstrong

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