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Prehistoric lawyer NICOLA SHULMAN

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Charles Foster is a novel version of the superhero – those guys who turn at night into agents of the law with magic powers.

Being an agent of the law or, at any rate, a lawyer, is his day job but, in the holidays, he changes his judicial livery for something quite else.

His last book was about living as a badger. Now he has turned his attention to time travel, returning in

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