Female pilots were essential to the war effort, and Whittell puts their stories down on paper.
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It is not, perhaps, entirely accurate to describe this as a roman à clef – at least you’d like to think so.
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After reading this book, you might want to buy a water filter for your house.
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The man who grasped the nature of Gaia takes her temperature, and finds she has one hell of a fever.
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That our potential to provide the food a growing world population needs is in question is not widely known...
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Tracing a profession from adventurous "sky girls", to sixties "glamour puss", to jet-age "trolly dolly".
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There is indeed no shortage of blood in the rush of battles, duels, captures, escapes, and near-misses.
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A 400-strong queue at a little local store, for a book?
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A 17th-century play, with medieval affectations, is brought into the 21st century with wit and flair.
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In its current form it is an entertaining evening of theatre, but better suited to the tastes of writers than their commercial representatives.
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