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Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman and The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe"What emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, muc...

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