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Red-Headed Rebel

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Yours, Faithfully

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Mummy Dearest

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Hanky Panky

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Charles Osborne

She Dunnit

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Saul David

Better Than The Romans

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Richard Overy

War in Asia

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The Emperor of Spin

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That Special Relationship

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Becoming Apollo

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Flapping About

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The Secret of Life

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Devil or Demure?

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Retail Heaven

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Chanel for Chavs

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John Gray

Split Religion

Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins

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Alan Brownjohn

The Blackbird at the Window

Collected Poems

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War and Paint

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Nigel Jones

‘ACHTUNG! SPITFEUER!’

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Simon Heffer

This House of Worship

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By Roy Strong

James Le Fanu

‘I Eat You’

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Shadows Boxing

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On Brick Lane

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John Dugdale

Zuckerman on a Zimmerframe

Exit Ghost

By Philip Roth

Caroline Moorehead

Darkness Falls

The Rebels

By Sándor Mára (Translated by George Szirtes)

Pamela Norris

The Young and the Old

Fire in the Blood

By Irène Némirovsky (Translated by Sandra Smith)

Carole Angier

The Horror

The Almost Moon

By Alice Sebold

Matt Thorne

A Russian Doll

The Gum Thief

By Douglas Coupland

Ruth Dudley Edwards

A Grizzly Wake

The Gathering

By Anne Enright

Amanda Craig

Wild Justice

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By Susan Hill

Leo Benedictus

Dirty Dwight

The Elephanta Suite

By Paul Theroux

Geordie Greig

Trouble For Tony

The Ghost

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Rachel Hore

Aural Antics

The Quiet Girl

By Peter Høeg (Translated by Nadia Christiansen)

Richard Godwin

A Recipe For Disaster

The End of Mr Y

By Scarlett Thomas