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|author=Laura Wilson
|title=The Riot
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Stratton has moved to a new posting and Notting Hill is fresh territory to him, but he’s going to have to get to know it fast when a rent collector is stabbed. There’s a sense of loss from the people who knew the man - he was inclined to help if he could and with landlords wanting to oust rent-controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes in their place (higher rents, you see) any help was welcome. Added to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boys. It’s 1958 - and there’s a heatwave.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>
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|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is a style known as the South Florida Noir. The action tends to take place in daylight, in the glare of the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleyways. If you’re not familiar with South Florida Noir, ''No Regrets, Coyote'' is a good place to start. And if you are, well, be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example of the genre.
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|title=No Man's Land: Writings From A World At War
|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War: a war that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about it. I don't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for the Victorian public, but artists: poets, authors, memoirists and painters. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory, through countless poetry anthologies, recitals at memorials, and in school classrooms.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>
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