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|author=Nick Bantock
|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Oh Griffin and Sabine, where have you been all my life? I've loved epistolary novels and ones that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a book', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact ever. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Elys Dolan
|summary= Audrey, widowed mother of grown up twins, is setting off for one last hurrah, taking her children on a Greek island cruise. It's quite a nice gesture for the pair, to whom she's starting to feel something of a burden, but she has the time and the means to treat them, so why shouldn't she? There may be more to it than that, though.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454406</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joe Abercrombie
|title=Sharp Ends
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on the part of the author, they get to write down a lot of their ideas that don't really fit into a larger story. The stop/start nature of them never sits well with me, just as I am starting to get to know a character they are gone. One way of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore the past, or the future. That sounds great for a fan, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>
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