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Book of the Week - June 2006
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sanson
British spy Harry Brett is sent to wartime Spain on a dangerous mission. His girlfriend Barbara is also on a secret mission to find her former lover who has vanished on the battlefields of Jarama. A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain.
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of the New China by Rachel DeWoskin
The author describes her years playing a “foreign babe” in a Chinese television drama while experiencing the real culture shock of living in China in the 1990s.
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Set in an unnamed African country this is a compelling novel about the things we do to each other in the name of war and about a boy’s lost innocence. | |
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