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Susan’s Bookshelves: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

First published in 1968 Ted Hughes’s novella (for children?) was widely taught, referred to and recommended during most of the years I was teaching in mainstream secondary schools. Thus it has sat on my bookshelves for decades, crying out for reappraisal. It’s a sci-fi, dystopian fantasy in which a huge (“head shaped like a dustbin […]

17 hours ago Susan Elkin

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