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Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from homeBy Profile Books |
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Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by WritingBy Yale University Press |
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The World's WifeBy Picador |
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On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftBy New English Library |
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How Proust Can Change Your LifeBy Picador |
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James Lees-MilneBy John Murray |
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So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (Penguin Classics)By Penguin Classics |
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Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)By HarperPerennial |
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Agatha Christie at HomeBy Frances Lincoln |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsBy Virago Press Ltd |
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