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|author=Christopher Fowler
|title=The Book of Forgotten Authors
|rating=5
|genre=Reference
|summary=''Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.''
There's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484897</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Durian Sukegawa and Alison Watts (translator)
|summary=I might have started this review by saying something like 'only reading can give your world such wonder'. But that's wrong – meeting a selkie can, being sent to sleep for a century can, guessing the name of a dwarven spinner maestro can, and so can so much more in the world of children's narrative. This delightful book is jam-packed with quickly-told classic delights, from Norse-based fable to the purest source of pantomime. And everywhere you turn you find something full of wonder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764039</amazonuk>
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