Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch Long-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, Jamrach's Menagerie is an absorbing story, a sort of cross between The Life of Pi and The Ancient Mariner. [at any rate it has a tiger and a cursed ship.] Jaffy Brown is eight years old. He runs away from Bermondsey with …
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Shall we eat the cabin boy?
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch A Review Long-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, Jamrach's Menagerie is an absorbing story of the sea, a sort of cross between The Life of Pi and The Ancient Mariner; at any rate it has a tiger and a cursed ship. Jaffy Brown is eight years old. He runs …
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