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Hall, SarahThe Carhullan ArmyThe world has changed. War rages inSouth America and China, and Britain,now entirely dependent on the USfor food and energy, is run by anomnipresent dictatorship known simplyas The Authority. Assets and weaponshave been seized, every movement ismonitored and women are compulsorilyfitted with contraceptive devices. This isSister’s story of her attempt to escape therepressive regime. From the confines ofher Lancaster prison cell she tells of hersearch for The Carhullan Army, aquasi-mythical commune of ‘unofficial’women rumoured to be living in aremote part of Cumbria.Hamilton, Hugo The Speckled PeopleAll Hugo wants to do is speak English.English is, after all, what the otherchildren in Dublin speak. English is whatthey use when they hunt down in thestreets of Dublin, and English is whatthey use when they bring him to trial andexecute him at a mock seaside court. Outof this fear and confusion Hugo tries tobuild a balanced view of the world, toturn the twisted logic of what he is toldinto truth.34