Miranda Moore
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June 2025
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A Beautiful Terrible Thing
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
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"Lemn Sissay is a poet, author and broadcaster. He was the official poet of the London Olympics. He is fairly regularly seen on British TV. He now also advocates for children in care and is involved in a number of organisations concerned with their we"
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"I’ve really liked and admired the strong, pure focus of Lemn Sissay’s voice as a poet and a broadcaster at large every time I’ve had the opportunity to read or hear it. In this incendiary memoir of his childhood at the hands of the Authority (love ho"
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"I'm trying to read the Carnegie shortlist this year. This is my favourite so far.
This book punches hard - wow! Well drawn characters that I think most of us would recognise from our teenage days. The tragedy of lives shaped by neglectful or overzeal" Read more of this review » |
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"Play is a book about the trappings of poverty and the allure of easy money. It is about the absence of parents, the illusion of control, and the shifting, mutating idea of what it means to be a man, defined in each moment by how the men around you hu"
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