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by Andrew Wear (Oneworld, ISBN 9781786079015)

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★★★★✩

Reviewers don’t often highlight the process of reviewing, for the good reason that it is usually mundane: receive review copy, read book, write about it. The circumstances of this review are somewhat different, however.

I am reviewing from a PDF file, not because it is convenient but because I am writing in the sixth week of UK lockdown caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic and it isn’t currently possible to get a physical copy of the book from the NI offices in Oxford to my home in the North East. It

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