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Cailean McBride

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Cailean McBride is an author, screenwriter and journalist who has lived and worked in Italy, Australia and the UK and currently lives in Scotland.

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	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, Cailean McBride (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 10,046 ratings — published 1824 — 845 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Johnny Zero 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She's Lost Control 1.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hearts Filthy Lesson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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TS Eliot: After the Wasteland by Robert Crawford

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THIS IS big book. In fact, taken with its first volume, Robert Crawford could be said to have produced the definitive biography of TS Eliot.

And it’s one that’s sorely needed. If there’s one literary figure of the 20th century in need of some re-evaluation then it’s surely Eliot. From the cliché of the Brylcreemed, pin-striped and bowler-hatted trying-so-very-hard-to-be-an-English-gent p

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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Woodworking

by Emily St. James

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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

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