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Newsletter #186

May 14, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Cycle City

Cycle City

by Alison Farrell

MADE-UP

A polar bear on a gelatocycle. A fish on a hydrocycle. An armadillo on a penny farthing (that's a bike too). Mayor Snail on a snazzy little BMX. A giraffe on a very tall unicycle. Everyone in Cycle Ci... (Tom)

Cover of New Grub Street

New Grub Street

by George Gissing

I've long had a grim fascination with the somewhat-remembered Victorian novelist George Gissing (his diaries, for one thing, are a remarkable trudge through a writer's workmanlike subsistence), and fo... (Tom)

Cover of So Lucky

So Lucky

by Nicola Griffith

MADE-UP

Settle in quickly when you begin this little book, because it's going to charge out of the gate, whether you're buckled in or not. It begins with a stumble for its main character, Mara, which soon bec... (Tom)

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