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Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

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American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins

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each one for a fleeting moment my amazing Technicolour dream job, until I realised it wasn’t.

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