Margie Taylor
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Rose Addams
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Harrow Road
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Displaced Persons
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2004
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60 IS THE NEW 20: A boomer's guide to aging with grace, dignity and what's left of your self-respect
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2011
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Some of Skippy's Blues
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1998
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I'll Read That For You: A bluffer's guide to 101 books you should read before you die
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2019
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Murder in the Atrium
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1998
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You can't clap with one hand: A story of a South Asian family in Uganda
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| In August of 1972, President Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Uganada's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to get out of the country. Many of these were UK citizens, and some 27,000 emigrated to Britain. Of the other refugees who were accounted fo ...more | |
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| Geography was one of my favourite subjects when I was in high school. I loved poring over maps, thinking about all the strange and exotic places that existed in the world, and wondering about the people who lived there. I never got further than Weste ...more | |
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| Kintsugi, a work of auto-fiction by first-generation Chinese Canadian Ming Louie Stein, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer mixed with gold. It is an apt metaphor for the story of a so- ...more | |
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| Fifteen years ago when I began writing Harrow Road, the novelized version of my great-grandmother’s life, I realized this was one book I wasn’t going to be able to pull out of my head. I needed help. My g-grandmother, Annie Elizabeth Morgan, was born ...more | |
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"When I use a word," [he] said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said [he], "which ...more |
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| Nobody really needs an excuse to re-read P. G. Wodehouse, but I will say that going back to one of my favourite writers has given me a much-needed sense of comfort in these stressful times. There is something soothing about retreating into a world wh ...more | |
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| When I was young and naïve – well, younger than I am now – and working on my first novel, I used to imagine myself walking down the street and being stopped at regular intervals by people who’d read it. I imagined them doing a double-take as they rec ...more | |
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