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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

by Penelope Lively

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Penelope Lively

City of the Mind by Penelope Lively

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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City of the Mind
by Penelope Lively

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)