Sophia Waugh

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In a review of Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange Things the inhabitants of the planet Oasis embrace the King James Bible and begin numbering themselves Jesus Lover One, Two and Three ...

  • The Book of Strange New Things

    Michel Faber

    Canongate, pp. 600

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