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with the envoys and merchants who drew in and disseminated news across Europe

Mother Land is a brilliant debut autobiographical novel with a literary style that recalls such coming-of-age novels as Catcher in the Rye and The Kite Flyer

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Van Gogh and Renoir

The Glass Mountain House plants It is also a feastMalcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great uncle Ralph's wartime adventures: he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from that, he'd faded into family folklore, lost to view. Until, one hot afternoon in an English country garden, a chance conversation set him off on his uncle's trail. What Ralph really did in the war was, he discovers, even more extraordinary than the exaggerations of family