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		<title>&#8216;Straight from the off, what you see is what you get&#8217; &#8211; Switched by Amanda Hocking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA['Amanda Hocking is now known as the self-publishing queen, the girl who took her chance with the ebook market and won. Her new publishers and Amazon page state how she’s sold over a million books already, so I’m a little late joining the Hocking hype and phenomenon. Switched takes a spin on the saturated YA fantasy genre by introducing the reader to the next generation of creatures, trolls, spelt Trylle by Hocking. But these aren’t the ugly, hair-standing-up-on-end, rub-their-belly-for-good-luck trolls; these trolls are gorgeous, seductive beings with powers to control the elements as well as humans' - Claire Snook reviews Switched by Amanda Hocking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookmunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661055&amp;post=5611&amp;subd=bookmunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘There is a hole in the English language’ &#8211; Bereft by Chris Womersley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['This is the story of a broken man finding the strength to face his demons and it is a good story.  It is also a murder mystery where surprisingly, the mystery is not who did it, but whether Quinn can find the strength to seek retribution for his sister.  In a world where death is the norm and the landscape is littered with bodies, the fact that Womersley has made one death matter is testament to his skill' - Julie Fisher reviews Bereft by Chris Womersley<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookmunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661055&amp;post=5508&amp;subd=bookmunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Fledgling flashers take note’ &#8211; The Exploding Boy and Other Tiny Tales by Nick Parker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of so-called proponents of flash fiction who, in my book, don’t quite get flash fiction. Flash fiction isn’t or shouldn’t be just short nothing very much episodes or random interludes or spikey obtuse oddities. Flash fictions are just very short short stories – but all of the rules, demands and challenges of the short story form still apply. If you look at Richard Brautigan’s Revenge of the Lawn – still a masterclass in writing flash fiction – or even Dave Eggers’ Short Shorts, you’ll hopefully see what I mean. Just because the stories are short doesn’t mean they have an easy ride. If anything they should work harder.  They’re certainly not a depository for half-formed ideas that a writer can’t be bothered to work at or turn into longer more thought out pieces. Thankfully Nick Parker’s excellent collection The Exploding Boy and Other Tiny Tales is fit to rub shoulders with the likes of Brautigan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookmunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661055&amp;post=5504&amp;subd=bookmunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘A splendid addition to an already impressive portfolio of published work’ &#8211; Cusp by Graham Mort</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA['This is poetry you can touch, feel, smell, taste and drown in. Mort’s passion and his sensual feel for language and form is evident in every line he writes. His gift for portraying everyday things in extraordinary ways sends the mind spinning to catch up. His way of seeing the world, of feeling his experiences is sometimes almost shocking in its newness' - Carola Huttmann reviews Cusp by Graham Mort<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookmunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661055&amp;post=5574&amp;subd=bookmunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Like Samuel Beckett’s dog, chained to its own vomit’ &#8211; The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One’ EP by Stewart Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This set came at a peculiar time for the professional underdog in that he’d just had a critically acclaimed TV series on BBC2 which meant he had to try different things in order to maintain that sense of distance and detachment he’d worked so hard to refine. In reality, Stewart Lee is becoming more and more popular and more and more (whisper it) understood. On stage, as Lee attempts to go further and further, challenging himself and his audience, the sense of him as a curmudgeonly outsider continues (arguably reaching its apotheosis in the moments when he drew attention to audience members leaving in series two of the Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookmunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661055&amp;post=5540&amp;subd=bookmunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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