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Friday, 23 July 2021

'The Road to Wigan Pier' by George Orwell

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My favourite George Orwell book (so far)! The first half is descriptions of working class life in poor areas in the 1930s; at the time it wa...
Sunday, 4 July 2021

'Red Famine' by Anne Applebaum

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My grandparents came from Ukraine, arriving in Britain after WW2. I went to Ukrainian school on Saturdays until I was 12, though I hated it:...
Thursday, 10 June 2021

'City' by Clifford D. Simak

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'City' is a fun collection of retro SF written in the 1940s and 50s, charting the future of the earth from the 1990s to thousands of...
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