Far and Away: The Essential A.A. GillA. A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page. This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from near and far. He was ferociously well travelled, and once wrote that for all our ability to cross the world at will, 'abroad is as foreign and funny and strange and shocking as

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who mapped much of the Antarctic coastline and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there

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A dysfunctional family go into meltdown when two members go missing one snowy night

Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-90s north London

taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots

But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind

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The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters

Christopher Matthew has taken Milne's best poems and rewritten them for 60 year olds

the author turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers