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The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury — sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy.

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An Archive of Happiness is set in the Scottish Highlands over the course of one day during the Avens family’s annual get-together.

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‘A beautiful collection processing what we don’t want to know about the state of our damaged world’

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