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Thursday 06 November 2014

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, review: 'intent on making us kinder'

Michel Faber’s scary new sci-fi novel is a great, mature performance

By Anthony Cummins

4:00PM GMT 06 Nov 2014

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