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Recent Posts

  • Mrs. Lorimer’s Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering – a gentle and funny republished 1953 novel from Furrowed Middlebrow /Dean Street Press
  • Death Goes On Skis by Nancy Spain – a reprinted 1949 novel of humour, murder and its time
  • Oxford Blues by Andy Griffee -Revealing the cover of a book to come in July!
  • Tension by E.M. Delafield – an 1920 novel of tensions in a small community reprinted in the British Library Women Writers series
  • Three Weddings and a Proposal by Sheila O’Flanagan – a woman must consider her options in contemporary Dublin

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  • Amber Reeves
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  • Amy Binns
  • Amy Jones
  • Andrea Levy
  • Andrea Stewart
  • Andrew Grumbridge & Vincent Raison
  • Andy Griffee
  • Andy Hamilton
  • Andy Miller
  • Angela Dyson
  • Angela Thirkell
  • Angus Donald
  • Anita Frank
  • Anita Mir
  • Ann Cleeves
  • Ann Victoria Roberts
  • Ann-Marie Einhaus
  • Anna Hope
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  • Anna Nicholas
  • Anna Sayburn Lane
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  • Annie Haynes
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  • Anthony Rhodes
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  • Anthony Wynne
  • Anton Du Beke
  • Antonia Fraser
  • Arnold Bennett
  • Audla English
  • Austin Lee
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