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Pack Men, by Alan Bissett

Originally published in Scotland on Sunday, 18 September 2011. While Jerome K Jerome’s fictionalised travelogue about three male friends (and a dog) journeying along the Thames has been in print constantly since 1889, it’s now largely forgotten how the literary establishment of the day condemned it as vulgar (in all senses of the word) and […]

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The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan

Originally published in Scotland on Sunday, 1 May 2011. Jake Marlowe is a werewolf. In fact, when we first meet him, he’s just learned that he’s officially the last werewolf on the planet, thanks to both the genocidal work of the World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena (WOCOP) and the mysterious fact that, […]

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