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Book review: Gun Machine - cold steel
While this is an incredibly entertaining, smart book, it is all flash and very little flesh.
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Book review: The Uninvited – suffer the children
It is a book with many frightening aspects — one being how easy it is to read and accept what is being suggested.
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Who’s the fairest of them all?
Heaving bosoms and skin-tight spandex. Are female comic characters doomed to be mere sex symbols?
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Book review: Between Clay and Dust - subtlety in times of high drama
Between Clay and Dust is about a wrestler and a tawaif, two art forms, that no longer hold the glory they once did.
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Film review: The Hunger Games
It could have been a great movie, had the director been willing to go as dark as the book sometimes did.
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Book review: Granta 117 - fear factor
There is no doubt that those looking for good writing will be perfectly happy with this edition.
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Film review: Attack the Block - out of this world
It’s fun, it’s entertaining and somewhere below action it asks astute questions about race, society and community.
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Book review: Dead reckoning - Lady and the vamp
Even to someone who has enjoyed these books previously, Dead Reckoning feels stale.
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Mohammed Hanif: Back with (another) bang
The man who brought you exploding mangoes is back!
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The F Word: When you’re a woman
The F Word is an interesting collection of work but there's only so much a single edition of a magazine can achieve.