Enchanted Life: Memoir of a Magician

Enchanted Life: Memoir of a MagicianMemoirs can be boring, covering the same old ground, telling essentially the same old stories. Not this one. Herbie Brennan began a lifelong career as a writer at the age of 18. He worked as a journalist, a magazine editor, an advertising copywriter, a novelist and author. But that was not what made him weird. For Herbie studied magic and the paranormal, even venturing into the shadow world of the occult. What you discover between the covers of this

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