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New Statesman 2016 Xmas Children’s Books Picks

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If keeping your spirits up in the past month has been difficult, then the best children’s books may be a present to yourself. I am emerging from the duvet much as Moses came down from the mountain, to say there...

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The Hunger Games and the teenage craze for dystopian fiction

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Wizards and vampires are out. The market in teen fiction is dominated now by societies in breakdown. And it’s girls who are lapping them up.

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What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin

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Lappin's account of her life as a mulitple émigré is shot through with sadness and euphoria.

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