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The Novels Of Piers Paul Read

D. J. Taylor I first came across Piers Paul Read's novels sometime in the late 1970s when my father brought home a copy of Polonaise from the local branch library. In those......

Sestina At The End Of Socialism

We watch the workers walk away, We hear a time-clock punched in time. The whole account is in the red But not much in the shops today. Ruin is coming like a rhyme. The party is......