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          <body><![CDATA[ Flying Saucer Rock &amp; Roll is a story about teenage angst. About falling in and out of love, lust and friendship. About the starting and stopping of 'being in a band'.<br/><br/>Not only does Richard tackle these subjects with consummate skill, he goes one step further and adds in a teenager named ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615944">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[This is an incredibly complex novel which is made all the more compelling by the way the robust and endearing main characters fit together in a most satisfying fashion.<br/><br/>The Probability Angels are responsible for pushing their living charges into making life changing decisions. I think thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615918">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to meet Fiona Robyn when she came to town to read some of her poetry on a Tongues and Grooves evening.<br/><br/>Fiona's poetry is exquisite; the words are almost palpable, ripe, warm and juicy like blackberries eaten as fast as they can be picked off the sun warmed brambles.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615889">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[ue Eckstein's debut novel, The Cloths of Heaven, is a treasure.<br/><br/>The scented evenings, heavily weighted with West African heat, seemed to rise from the pages as I read. I felt as if I was curled up on a cushion, watching but unseen, as the plot unfolded like many layers of delicate, luxuriou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615842">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[The Season of the Beast is brought to you courtesy of those clever people at Gallic Books who provide you with the opportunity to enjoy French to English translations of some very good reads.<br/><br/>I've spent the past six weeks reading this novel by Andrea Japp (translated by Lorenza Garcia), p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615805">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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