The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks jacket

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9781250878618

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The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a compelling steampunk fairy tale that follows a train journey through the dangerous place that was once Siberia.

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Review of ‘The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands’

Trains are, for whatever reason, surprisingly common in contemporary genre fiction. Perhaps it is their predictability, with their reliance on firmly laid tracks and regular timetables representing an imposition of order on a chaotic world. But rarely is this made so explicit as in Sarah Brooks’ The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the…

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