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  • Bee Journal

    Sean Borodale

  • Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

    ed. Neil Astley

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

  • A Month in the Country

    J. L. Carr, Penelope Fitzgerald

  • A Sea Change

    Veronica Henry, Lisa Lailey

  • Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather

    Richard Mabey

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

    Sue Townsend

  • Dart

    Alice Oswald

  • The Help

    Kathryn Stockett

  • I Capture the Castle

    Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    Rachel Joyce

  • Miss Garnet's Angel

    Salley Vickers

  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    Winifred Watson, Henrietta Twycross-Martin

  • Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

    Terry Pratchett

  • A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets

    James Bowen

  • The Thread

    Victoria Hislop

  • Thursdays in the Park

    Hilary Boyd

  • Too Much Happiness

    Alice Munro

  • Various Pets Alive and Dead

    Marina Lewycka

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