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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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{{newreview
|title=The Beatles
|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother is just... well... lost. The only thing he has he has to remember his mother by is a note telling him to go to the mysterious Steam Academy. However, first he has to find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. What's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. What's he done to deserve that? More to the point, whatever he's done, how can he survive?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Mark
|title=Original Skin
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Aector McAvoy was rather hoping that he might be getting a reputation for his investigative skills but when we first meet him in ''Original Skin'' it's his ability with animals which is to the fore. If you want a runaway horse stopping then he's your man. He's distracted about something else too: whilst other detectives are working on a case which involves travellers and violent drug-related crime he's unable to get the case of Simon Appleyard out of his mind. Simon was deeply into the swinging scene and liked to live life to the full, so why did this slender young man with the peacock feathers tattooed on his back commit suicide one morning?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389785</amazonuk>
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