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Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

Other books by Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Fludd by Hilary Mantel

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel

Fludd
by Hilary Mantel

Bring up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Confessions of St Augustine
by St Augustine

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley