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Feeding the Rat

by Al Alvarez

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The Savage God by Al Alvarez

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The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark

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The Savage God
by Al Alvarez

The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
by Tania Branigan

My Fourth Time, We Drowned
by Sally Hayden

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by Laurie Lee

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
by Sue Prideaux

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
by Christopher Clark