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State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Dependable research scientist Marina Singh leaves behind everything she knows when she travels deep into the Amazon jungle to investigate the death of her colleague, Anders Eckman. Marina works for a pharmaceutical company that is developing a revolutionary new fertility drug…
Venice Haiku by Mike Wilkin
Here's a 'haiku review' of a lovely little book published by Iron Press: Delicate pages Redolent of gondolas - Venice glimpsed by lovers.
Soul food in cyberspace
The only thing I’ve read lately is the lunch menu at the local sandwich shop. Work has welded me to the Machine. You know the one. You are staring into it. Starved of novels, I’ve been stumbling around the cyber-desert…
Intoxicating night with millionaire poet Felix Dennis
My Name is Mina by David Almond
Have you met Mina? She loves words and birds and William Blake. She hates cages and she doesn’t go to school. Not any more anyway… My Name is Mina is her journal. It’s a young writer’s notebook – as gloriously…