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A Thunderous Recipe for Salad Dressing
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Charles Dickens
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Yours Logically
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M R D Foot
Another King Alfred
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How Exciting about the Lavatory!
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Won in the Post
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Donald Rayfield
Yours Radically
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Death by Review
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Sally Bayley
Plath’s Passions
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Harry Mount
Instead of a Book
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Anne Sebba
Ink, Toil, Tears & Sweat
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Tim Stanley
Yours, Mr President
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Toby Buchan
Beating is Not The Same Thing as Buggery
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David Wheatley
Yours Severely
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Frank McLynn
Worth Investigation
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Richard Canning
Plenty of Dish
The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin
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Pete Clark
Not Recommended
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Frances Spalding
Bloomsbury and Beyond
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Sara Wheeler
Writing their Own Romance
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Julian Barnes
When He Sat Down His Tongue Came Out
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Elaine Showalter
Sunny Sylvia
The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956
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