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There's No Story There

5/5 Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.

Closer

4/5 Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.

Sindhubala

3/5 Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.

John Halifax, Gentleman

2/5 Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.

The Black Lizard

1/5 New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.

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