Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "satire"

Giveaway: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán

I'm running a giveaway for my own favourite amongst my books, The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán - a dark satire around the story of a refugee in fashionable liberal London. Do enter for a chance to win a copy. The giveaway is here:

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Also available as an ebook of course, for $2.99/£2.16/EUR 3,09.
If you'd like to read more about this book and how it came to be written, the story's here:

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Published on August 13, 2016 10:40 Tags: asylum, fiction, giveaway, literature, politics, refugees, satire

Three great satires on feral Fleet Street

Have Fleet Street and its feral tabloids changed in 80 years? Not much, according to three remarkable satires - one new, the other two from the 1930s. Read all about it.

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The Beast by Alexander Starritt
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Published on October 25, 2017 08:26 Tags: alexander-starritt, evelyn-waugh, fiction, fleet-street, j-b-priestley, media, satire