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Golden Hill

by Francis Spufford

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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford

The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford

I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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Cahokia Jazz
by Francis Spufford

Backroom Boys
by Francis Spufford

The Child That Books Built
by Francis Spufford

I May Be Some Time
by Francis Spufford

Red Plenty
by Francis Spufford

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson