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A publication date of the 12th of June for the Frances
Lincoln Anti-War Anthology has been confirmed. All profits
and royalties will go to UNICEF's emergency appeal for the
children of Iraq.
Nearly 150 writers and artists including some of the industry's
most prestigious and talented authors and illustrators from
David Almond, Michael Rosen and Kevin Crossley-Holland to
Jane Ray, Chris Riddell and Nick Sharratt have donated prose,
poems and illustrations.
The contributions are international with
submissions from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece,
Japan, Turkey
and the USA.
All the material is new or very recent with 95% of writers
the writers involved contributing new work for this anthology.
All the artists involved are also donating their original
artwork for an auction, whose proceeds will also go to the
charity.
The book will cover a variety of wars including the two
World Wars, the Falklands, Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Gulf
wars, Kosovo, the Spanish Civil War, conflicts in Croatia,
Cyprus and visions of alternative futures in a world without
war or still devastated by it.
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The
overwhelming response and the high quality of
contributions made it clear it was an idea whose
time had come. As one contributor said, it was
a book that wanted to be.
