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BfK No. 63 - July 1990

Cover Story
The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.

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Staying Up

Robert Swindells
(Corgi Childrens)
978-0552525039, RRP £2.25, Paperback
14+ Secondary/Adult
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Brian is a Barfax Town football supporter; Debbie is his middle-class girlfriend whose parents are highly suspicious of him. Brian briefly aspires to be a member of The Ointment, the hooligan element of the Barfax Town's supporters. After brief forays into drunkenness and vandalism, he abandons the idea. When two local girls are lured away and killed, no-one suspects Royston Ambler, son of the team's chairman. But when Debbie accepts a lift with him she discovers the truth - almost too late. Swindell's clear style, recongisable characters and determination to raise issues important to young people, make this a book to recommend to 3rd years upwards - particularly (but not exclusively) reluctant readers.

Reviewer: 
Val Randall
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