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|author= Matthew Stephen

|title= Baturi

|rating= 4.5

|genre= General Fiction

|summary= It's Nigeria and it's the 80s. Matthew is a VSO, on a placement at a college teaching electronics. Or trying to at any rate. When language skills are limited and resources are scarce, you have to make the most of what you've got, even if that means teaching the odd class on American culture rather than rewiring. If I tell you that the ''Prime Directive'' applies a lot when you're a VSO, you'll appreciate the difficulties Matthew has when his students want to stray further into the modern world and learn about how things work in Britain, concepts of inventions such as ATMs that are decades off reaching Nigeria (Those days may still be some way off. I actually had a hand written bank card a few years ago while a VSO in a country not too far away).

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OISR3AK</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Carys Bray

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023302</amazonuk>

|amazonus=<amazonus>0434023302</amazonus>

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~~|author=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)~~

~~|title=The Birds~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=We're somewhere in rural Scandinavia, on the shores of a large lake, but in a community relying on the farmland that is scattered in amongst the woods. Our chief concerns are brother and sister – Mattis and Hege. He, Mattis, is what the other villagers call 'simple' – sure, he knows a few things about life, and what makes a clever person and what makes a well-turned phrase, and how to talk to girls and when to not stare at them, but he is definitely not quite as the others would wish. Those others include his sister, who is seeing her life waste away in listening to his chatter, knitting jumpers to make ends meet, and regretting in her own small way what has got her to middle-age in this situation. But from this galling introduction, you should take away the bigger picture – even if there is no way out, the life in this countryside is brilliantly conveyed, full of sun as well as shade, of labour and of idleness, and wit and charm as much as hardship. I defy you to read this and think this corner of Scandinavia bleak.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0914671200</amazonuk>~~

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