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...Arena 13, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 Delaney’s new series after his bestselling Spook’s saga introduces Leif, a provincial lad who runs away to Gindeen city to join the ranks of teenage gladiators...
...Barry Forshaw ——————————————- YOUNG ADULT Spook’s: A New Darkness, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 The spook is dead, long live the spook!...
...Spooks: Slither’s Tale, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head RRP£9.99 Fans of Delaney’s best-selling Spooks series will lap up this Beast-and-Beauty episode, but it’s also accessible to newcomers....
...Topher Delaney’s fire garden is good, as is her San Francisco garden, where a magnificent limestone boulder appears to be eating a stone sink....
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