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Hi folks,
I found an author who has an extraneous page with a mis-spelling of their name.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

This is their real page.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

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message 828: by Arenda (new)

Jan 11, 2021 04:43AM

#829 done

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message 829: by Clare (new)

Jan 11, 2021 04:54AM

I found two pages for the same author, a slight difference in spelling. The page with several books is the real one according to the book covers.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

One of his books is listed with two spellings of his name.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

This provides a third page for the same author, with the wrong spelling.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Many of the books do not have covers shown.

Black Cat In The Window has alternate covers shown as separate books, presuming they are separate editions.

Bio info from Wikipedia, which is asking for additional citations, but seems probably correct to me, and I had met the gentleman.

Liam Ó Murchú (10 February 1929 – 28 June 2015) was an Irish television broadcaster, who worked with the national station Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ).

Liam Ó Murchú was born in Blarney Street, Cork in 1929. He was educated in the nearby Christian Brothers school and won a scholarship to secondary school in the North Mon. He subsequently attended University College Cork where he studied literature. Ó Murchú left UCC after a year to become a clerical officer. He later turned to writing, and his works were published in the United States, Britain and at home. Ó Murchú was later appointed law adviser to the Minister for Health, Seán MacEntee and later Charles Haughey. At the February 1982 general election he stood for election to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Cork North-Central constituency, but polled considerably less than expected with about 4.5% of the vote.

He joined RTÉ in 1964 in the role of Editor of Irish language programmes and later went on to become Assistant Controller of Programmes and Assistant to the Director General. He also turned his hand to broadcasting, presenting such shows as Trom agus Éadrom, for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1976, and Up for the Final. He was renowned for using the Irish language phrase "Bualadh Bos" on this show when asking the audience to clap.

Ó Murchú left RTÉ in 1988 to set up his own production company, however, he returned to the small screen on a number of occasions presenting such programmes as Lifelines. In 2002 he received an honorary degree from University College Cork. He wrote an article every month for the weekly magazine Ireland's Own. He died on 28 June 2015 at the age of 86.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_%C...

Thanks for your help.

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message 830: by Clare (new)

Jan 11, 2021 05:11AM

Thank you Arenda! That was quick.

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message 831: by Liz V. (last edited Apr 13, 2022 03:26PM) (new)

Jan 11, 2021 08:49AM