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This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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A view of the future - Lucy Four is one of the Queen's children, drugged by prescribed music, her mind blanketed to reject her past. Lucy cannot maintain her position in this new order and little by little remembers the past. Mick provides a means of escape and she takes it, returning to her deserted home and trying to survive by living on her wits and instinct; cleaner and sharper than the artificial cocooning of the Queen's security. Richemont explores the attraction of an existence where thought and independent action aren't required. When the Queen's regime is broken down, there are those who suffer, but suffering at least indicates that regeneration has begun. This thought-provoking novel will offer a good deal to Year 9 and above.
