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Kate Ruston

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Born

in The United Kingdom

Website

http://happylittlenarwhal.blogspot.co.uk/

Genre

Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Member Since

February 2014

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’Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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1984

by George Orwell

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Don't Look Now and Other Stories

by Daphne du Maurier

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