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March 04, 2008

Political strawberries

Eye notes that Marina Lewycka's novel Two Caravans, which the Friend presented as a reading at the Edinburgh Festival last year, is on the long list for the Orwell prize for political writing. This sad but funny tale of migrant strawberry pickers is, in our opinion, a very political piece of fiction, in the way that Dickens was political. Marina's book is competing with the Alastair Campbell diaries and William Hague's biography of Wilberforce. A shortlist will be announced on 26 March and the award ceremony will be on 24 April.
Eye is delighted to announce that we are taking our production to Britain Yearly Meeting in May.

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March 04, 2008

Political strawberries

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