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‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…
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It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…
I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…