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Waste Not, Want Not
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Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We’ve Thrown Away
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The Woolworths Poltergeist
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Motherwell: A Girlhood
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A Postcode of One’s Own
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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
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Mistress of Disguise
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Stitches in Time
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Class Myths
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Austenmania
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
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Look into My Eyes
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By Ruth Brandon
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