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Cover illustration: ‘Midnight Garden’, linocut by Angie Lewin. Angie Lewin studied printmaking at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design and at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. Her limited-edition linocut, wood-engraving, lithograph and screen prints are inspired by skeletal plant forms seen against the sea and sky of North Norfolk and the

Scottish Highlands. Her work can be seen at www.angielewin.co.uk.

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From the Editors

Well Done, Carruthers! • jim ring

The Perfect Spy • frances donnelly

Lives on the Edge • frank herrmann

Smiling Through • richard davies

Academic Angst • josie barnard

A Sensual but Secret World • eric brown

An Extraordinary Ordinary Man • richard platt

Down in the Mayfair Badlands • d. j. taylor

The Well-Connected Letter-Writer • marie forsyth

On the North West Frontier • bruce coward

High Flyer • trevor fishlock

Thoreau’s Axe • roger jones

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