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Melvin Burgess

Publication Date: Tue, 29/01/2013 - 10:39

The recession has lasted decades. There is mass unemployment and mass poverty. You are a teenager with no future ahead of you and someone offers you a drug that will give you the biggest and best high of your life, making you feel more alive than you ever have . . . and then kills you a week later—so, do you take a hit of Death?
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Duffy backs Manchester library protest

Publication Date: Mon, 18/06/2012 - 08:29

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has signed a petition calling on Manchester City Council to halt plans to pulp some 300,000 books in its £150m refurbishment of Manchester’s Central Library.

A protest campaign against the action is being led by publisher Kevin Duffy of Bluemoose Books and the author Melvin Burgess....

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