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Andrew Motion

Birth date: October 26, 1952

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Fiction, Poetry

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The New World by Andrew Motion (9-Oct-2014) Hardcover - Andrew Motion

Poem For The Day Two - Nicholas Albery, Andrew Motion

Silver: Return to Treasure Island - Andrew Motion

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life - Andrew Motion

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry - Julia Bell, Paul Magrs, Andrew Motion

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) - Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion

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The City Of Invention rated it

11 years ago

text Piracy Viewed Through A Modern Lens

A sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Silver is an account of a voyage by Jim Hawkins' son and Long John Silver's daughter to the island where their fathers abandoned part of Captain Kidd's treasure, and marooned a handful of bloodthirsty pirates.It's a respectful sequel with plenty ...

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The English Student rated it

12 years ago

text Poem for the Day Two - Nicholas Albery

A good selection of poems from all over the world and all eras. It's supposed to be a "learn a poem a day" thing, so, wanting to do things properly, I duly began by learning my Poem for the Day, every day. This lasted about five months before I realised I couldn't remember most of them. So I started...

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bookaneer rated it

12 years ago

text Shiver my timbers, shiver my soul, Yo oh heave ho...

Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion Silver is a cute and very close-to-canon continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. If you check it out on audio, it is narrated by none other than David Tennant, alias The Tenth Doctor from the TV programme Doctor Who. According to ...

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Peculiariteas rated it

12 years ago

text The Invention of Dr Cake

I knew on page 53.This was a very interesting little book. At times, however, I really had to remind myself that Tabor is not Motion and that the whole story might be a complete fiction. I must say I am still not sure where this book stands in terms of historical accuracy. Regardless, I enjoyed the ...

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