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The acclaimed author of The Underground Railroad (2016) follows up with a leaner, meaner saga of Deep South captivity set in the mid-20th century and fraught with horrors more chilling for being based on true-life atrocities.

Elwood Curtis is a law-abiding, teenage paragon of rectitude, an avid reader of encyclopedias and after-school worker diligently overcoming hardships that come from being abandoned by his parents and growing up black and poor in segregated Tallahassee, Florida. It’s the early 1960s, and Elwood can feel changes coming every time he listens to an LP of his hero Martin Luther King Jr. sermonizing about breaking down racial barriers. But while hitchhiking to his first day of classes at a nearby black college, Elwood accepts a ride in what turns out to be a stolen car and is sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory that looks somewhat like the campus he’d almost attended but turns out to be a monstrously racist institution whose students, white and black alike, are brutally beaten, sexually abused, and used by the school’s two-faced officials to steal food and supplies. At first, Elwood thinks he can work his way past the arbitrary punishments and sadistic treatment (“I am stuck here, but I’ll make the best of it…and I’ll make it

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Saddened yesterday to learn of the death of Cumbrian author Margaret Forster.  She had been looking cancer in the eye for more than forty years, after being diagnosed with breast cancer as a young mother. Although Margaret kept the diagnosis strictly private, the subject found its way, as writers' lives do, into her novels.  'Is there anything you want?' is the story of a group of very different women who meet at a cancer clinic in a northern hospital that closely resembles the old Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.  She didn't tell the full story, publicly, until her most recent book, a memoir, 'My Life in Houses', written when secondary cancer had already invaded her spine.

Margaret had no time for euphemisms.  A spade was very definitely a spade, and her honesty sometimes terrified other people.  No talk of 'passing away', or 'kicking the bucket' -  'What's wrong with the word "dead"?' Margaret asked.   And she ridiculed those who talked about her brave 'battle' with cancer.  'There is no fighting that can be done,'  she observed.  'and being positive not only has no proven effect but it creates another psychological burden for the patient.'  She saw the illness as a 'touch of woodworm, or dry rot' in the