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Matthew De Abaitua

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	The Red Men 3.69 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Destructives 3.79 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Then 3.34 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Not by Rose Macaulay, Matthew De Abaitua (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.48 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1918 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With the Night Mail and As Easy as A.B.C.: Two Yarns About the Aerial Board of Control by Rudyard Kipling, Matthew De Abaitua (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Bruce Sterling (Afterword) 3.03 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1909 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2001: An Odyssey In Words: Honouring the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Birth by Ian Whates (Editor), Tom Hunter (Editor), Reynolds Alastair (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2018 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alastair Reynolds (Contributor), Lavie Tidhar 3.93 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self and I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition 4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idler's Companion: An Anthology of Lazy Literature by Tom Hodgkinson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew De Abaitua (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My memoir Self & I has been reviewed widely in the UK. Here is the review in the Times Literary Supplement. Review in The Spectator, Financial Times, The Guardian. You can also listen to me talking to Janice Forsyth about Self & I to Radio Scotland. See also the review below from The Oldie. Where…

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“Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.”
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“Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.”
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