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  • His new novel, Stamping Butterflies, is set during the birth of punk, half way across the galaxy, and a few years from now in the Mediterranean, where US marines are keeping prisoner a man who has just tried to shoot the American president.

    Dec. 11th, 2008 - Issue 0.025 z0mbieastronaut 2008

  • It's all left me with an overwhelming urge to go to the Natural History Museum and gaze at all those tropical butterflies, though really I should be getting on with some quilting because, as a way of making myself complete and finish, The Inundation of the Spring With the Sound of Butterflies is entered in an exhibition later this year.

    66 entries from January 2007 2007

  • I couldn't possibly comment but The Sound of Butterflies is a good involving read contrasting the constraints of life in Edwardian England with the rather more lax state of affairs in the Amazon jungle.

    Proof encounter 2007

  • It's all left me with an overwhelming urge to go to the Natural History Museum and gaze at all those tropical butterflies, though really I should be getting on with some quilting because, as a way of making myself complete and finish, The Inundation of the Spring With the Sound of Butterflies is entered in an exhibition later this year.

    Proof encounter 2007

  • I couldn't possibly comment but The Sound of Butterflies is a good involving read contrasting the constraints of life in Edwardian England with the rather more lax state of affairs in the Amazon jungle.

    Proof encounter 2007

  • I couldn't possibly comment but The Sound of Butterflies is a good involving read contrasting the constraints of life in Edwardian England with the rather more lax state of affairs in the Amazon jungle.

    66 entries from January 2007 2007

  • It's all left me with an overwhelming urge to go to the Natural History Museum and gaze at all those tropical butterflies, though really I should be getting on with some quilting because, as a way of making myself complete and finish, The Inundation of the Spring With the Sound of Butterflies is entered in an exhibition later this year.

    Proof encounter 2007

  • This is a book -- as Julia Alvarez 'In the Time of the Butterflies was a book, and Toni Morrison's Sula was a book, and Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible was a book -- about a particular cast of characters, their psychological hinges, their rectitude and debasements.

    Ru Freeman: The "Ethnic" Book 2009

  • At the tea-house of the Indescribable Butterflies, which is also full to overflowing, but where we are well known, they have had the bright idea of throwing a temporary flooring over the little lake -- the pond where the goldfish live -- and our meal is served here, in the pleasant freshness of the fountain which continues its murmur under our feet.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • But they have not got much farther than giving names to the things we have long loved and seen as children, dividing the winged wonders into two big families called Butterflies and Moths.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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