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Charlie Laidlaw’s Being Alert! COVID and satire

Posted by Aruna at August 21, 2020 in interviews / Q&A's &the literary lounge

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    Author Charlie Laidlaw publishes Being Alert! this month, a satire set in a Britain led by inept PM Winston Spragg, and dealing with a virus that breaks out in China. Sound familiar? Here, Charlie joins us in The Literary Lounge and discusses his book, COVID and the importance and rich tradition of satire … Continue readings →

Tags : Being Alert!, Bloody Mary, British satire, bubonic plague, Charlie Laidlaw, COVID, Covid-19, Jack and Jill, nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes and satire, Ring a ring of roses, satire

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