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‘Figurehead’ by Patrick Allington

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“I was beside myself that he’d thanked me for saving his life. Not with rage exactly. Not guilt … grief maybe. It was as...

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"The Striped World" by Emma Jones

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Awarded Australia's prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2005 for her poem ‘Zoos for the Dead', it is with the publication of her debut...

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Pilgrimage: Robert Dessaix’s 'Arabesques'

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Scan the non-fiction shelves of any bookshop and you will find yourself invited to follow in the footsteps of Flaubert, Tolstoy, Alexander...

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‘The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age’ by David Okuefuna

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The Buddhist monk aflame in Saigon of 1963; the mushroom cloud of the Nagasaki atom bomb; September 11's Falling Man: the familiar...

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