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Title:              Pitcairn - Paradise Lost: Uncovering the dark secrets of a South Pacific fantasy island Author:           Kathy Marks Pages:            383 Publisher:       Fourth Estate, Harper Collins, Australia Date:               2008 I bought this book before my stroke – in fact, before my ex walked out more than a year before that – so I had nothing happening which could encourage me to read it. I finally read it during the lockdown for COVID-19. I wonder if I should have. Kathy Marks wrote a long true tale, but it told of paedophilia, incest, violence, youth, older men, women who would never believe their young girls, and just so many more stories leading up to the court case of rape and sexual assault. Pitcairn was a very small vacant island 230 years ago in 1790, when the sailor Fletcher Christian and the other 8 mutineers from the Bounty arrived there with 6 Tahitian men, 11 Tahitian women and a baby girl, and that’s where they stayed. Most of th

Have you read the Three Little Pigs in your childhood? How about Red Riding Hood ? You know, of course (don't you?) that they have been around for years . Roald Dahl and Jon  Scieszca knew the real  tales, and the're available on You Tube or published. Have a look at the You Tube videos  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or   Revolting Rhymes - Three Little Pigs . Or look up the real books in Penguin Random House or in Angus & Robertson .  I wrote a ... sort of ... review of these books. Enjoy! Wolf vs the Pigs – and Red Riding Hood @ Louisa Reid When Jon wrote the tale of wolf vs pigs The teller told of himself Who was, as he said, A hero and kind (*cough cough*) You can meet him from your bookshelf! In this tale he said he would sneeze Which, we now know, let him down If you’ve ever sneezed Then maybe you would know That sneeze became his breakdown He couldn’t trap the pigs while he sneezed at them He tried to break into