Hints and tips:
...Flanagan is informed by his father’s experiences as a prisoner of war forced to work on the Thai-Burma “death railway”...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Even so, the list reads a little oddly: Paris (the Georges V, indeed), Provence, Budapest, Dublin, Istanbul, Milan, Prague…and Farnham....
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