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November 2007 Issue Stephen Halliday Trainspotting Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain By Christian Wolmar LR
August 2007 Issue Leo McKinstry Pioneers at Work The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914 By Gavin Weightman LR
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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