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Ship of fools: Will Aitken skewers late-capitalism and upper-class pretension in The Swells

January 26, 2022June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

With not one but two pirate incursions, a mutiny, and other onboard shenanigans, the novel offers a fast, noisy narrative.

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