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Off the Shelf
By Matt Gallagher
| Wednesday, February 03, 2016
That war stories must occur in strange lands far from home,
filled with bullets and blood, remains a powerful fallacy. The consequences
and effects of war can’t be contained so neatly. Stories of war are stories
of love, stories of loss and longing, stories of hope. Stories of war are
stories of before and after, of inheritance and memory. The best stories of
war are so much more than stories of armed conflict. They are stories of
humanity.
Here are twelve novels of war that explore exactly that. READ
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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