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|author=Eric Beck Rubin
|title=School of Velocity
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jan's head is dropping him in it. He's a trained concert pianist, but is having difficulty performing, with a horrendous problem, in that he can hear any discordant music, or just in fact horrid noise, when in the wings waiting to perform, and never the score he is due to follow. The devil's tinnitus, you might call it. With another failure behind him, but dignity somewhat intact, Jan decides he has to work back through his life to tell us the cause – and we're likewise dropped into an extended flashback, to his formative years at art school, with a pretentious drama student, Dirk. The book is a fast-moving exploration of what Jan finds of note (pun intended) through his life, and all that might have caused his mental problem. But is cognisance of what might lie behind it going to help?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993506275</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Surya Sajnani
|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''Annie'' and involve children from a local school the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophile. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship and the amdrams told him that he was no longer a member. It was bad enough, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands and decided that the world would be a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murdered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>
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