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TGBC In The News -The wildly successful Tough Guy Book Club

The Age
By Carolyn Webb
April 30, 2021

It’s 7pm on a weeknight and 13 blokes are talking raucously over beers at a Collingwood pub once frequented by standover man Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read.

Some wear black hoodies and scarves emblazoned with their logo – a tattoo parlour-style, circular image of a skull with a candle oozing over it.

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