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1. There's No Story There

   5/5Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
2. Closer

   4/5Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
3. Sindhubala

   3/5Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.
4. John Halifax, Gentleman

   2/5Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.
5. The Black Lizard

   1/5New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.