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Ever wondered what the Queen might dip into when she fancies a bit of a browse? In The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett speculates with his latest warm tome as Liz takes a book
of Buckingham Palace’s mobile library, and before you know it is devouring everything from Proust to Beckett. We suspect her husband won’t be amused.
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Rather than being your usual senseless rnadnian let loose in a crazy City. Muir's murderer is in rather pleasant surroundings and on a moral crusade: the Stabber only goes after trite abusers. And is onh interested in one part of the body Eie to" an Eye comes with the Louise Welsh stamp of approxal — it earne to her attention bartlt because she Judged it the runner of the 200.1 Pitloem Crime ard —A and the author of The Cuftrr‘g co'“ certainli, knows a good duality tilthg. tale when she reads One [Redge Glasst Recommended Reading: 5.»: ‘er art Em :ntrodtiees as to D! Arid", Giottrist. I '3 Art; f" Grinr‘ Gt’zr'o'a f“
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