CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Common Cause
by Kate Hunter
Fledgling Press, £9.99
COMMON CAUSE is an almost immediate sequel to Kate Hunter’s powerfully focused debut novel, The Caseroom.
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