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BfK No. 22 - September 1983

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The illustration on our cover is from the new paperback edition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (Fontana Lions 0 00 671427 7, £1.00). We are grateful to Fontana Lions for making it possible to use it.

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The Hollow Land

Jane Gardam
(Puffin Books)
978-0140315523, RRP £2.50, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Accuse me of leveling or indigestion or what you will. I still don't think much of this. There's little to find exception with --- but nothing to rave over either. I wouldn't rate any of the nine stories very highly for classroom use --- there's more effective stuff in Gardam's Few Fair Days. The tales cover two families --- one native, one 'incomer' --- who are neighbors on the Cambrian feels. Low key adventures over a period of years (the last story is set in a post-oil 1999) show the continuity of the country life and celebrate the local characters. Minority interest.

Reviewer: 
Steve Bowles
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