Insult to Injury – Simon Armitage’s The Not Dead
An officer, fresh from Helmand, played us the mobile phone footage: the excited chatter and the puny rifle cracks were alien …
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An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise
Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …
Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet
Buy Here, Bullet from Amazon.co.uk It was the embedded reporters who grabbed my attention during Operation Iraqi Freedom and its …
