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|author= R Pollard
|title= Invisible Pleasures
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Autobiography
|summary= Roger Pollard has lived and loved to the full, and this memoir is a fine living testimony to both.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890794</amazonuk>
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|author= Richard Byrne
|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>
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|author=Christopher Fowler
|title=The Book of Forgotten Authors
|rating=5
|genre=Reference
|summary=''Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.''
 
There's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484897</amazonuk>
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