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LUCKY BEACH, BRIGHTON
183 Kings Rd Arches, BN1 Brighton beach is indeed lucky to have this ace burger and beer joint on its seafront promenade. Bag a table outside when the sun shines and do your best Samuel L Jackson impression as you order the royale with cheese (£6.75). We’re also admirers of the golden nugget burger (£5.95), essentially a giant chicken nugget in a bun, which goes well with local brewer Dark Star’s splendid golden ale Sunburst. luckybeach.co.uk
EOLIVER'S
LONDON
50 Bermondsey St, SE1 Detention has never been so enticing, as old-school comfort food is served in a Victorian school gym, complete with climbing frames and pommel horse booth-dividers. We went retro with the liver, bubble and squeak croquettes and onion gravy (£14.50). tannerandco.co.uk 23a Shaftesbury Ave, W1 The chef joins the trend for US-style food (hot dogs, ribs, burgers) served quickly, eaten messily and paired with hand wipes. The Pitt Waffle (pulled pork with a savoury waffle, £14) is special – wolf it down with a can of Huber Lager. jamieoliversdiner.com Kevin Powers, author of acclaimed Iraq novel The Yellow Birds, reveals his combat classics In Parenthesis by David Jones "It's a hybrid poem/novel about the First World War and is an amazing example of modernist literature as well as being a touching story about young men at war. Jones was a First World War veteran with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers." Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa “A poetry collection by a Vietnam veteran. The title is Vietnamese for ´crazy´. Komunyakaa has --------------- war poetry since that extraordinary group that came out of the First World War. lt's searing. He is so brave in his willingness to let his poetry address the horrors of Vietnam." Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien "Everyone talks about [O'Brien's] The Things They Carried, but I’m partial to this one. The opening passage is one of the finest pieces of writing by an American in the past 60 years. If you haven't read any of O'Brien's work, I'm ---
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read it for the first time."
The Forever War by
Dexter Filkins "The best piece of non-fiction about the war in Iraq by a wide margin. He was embedded with a unit, and his approach is to look into the smaller scale, day-to-day life of an army."
Meditations In Green by
Stephen Wright “An extraordinary novel. It’s about a guy in Vietnam who's developed an affinity for plants, as his job is to study the structure of the plants and jungle as it's being destroyed." The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers is out now in paperback --- Y O U R  R E C O M M E N D A T I O N I CALVERT, PATRICX NCO
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Well, This is awkward
Never have we been so pleased to be handed a piece of clear Perspex. On 6 June, ShortList's daily email, Mr Hyde, was awarded Launch Of The Year by the Association Of Online Publishers. A team of 26 experts chose Mr Hyde in an “extremely high-guality category", and said that "consumers love it". And 26 experts can’t be wrong. 25, maybe, but not 26. For more on Mr Hyde, and the chance to win £2,500 of men’s clothing, turn to page 30. W W W . S H O R T L I S T . C O M 1  1