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Vintage designers pick their favourite book jackets of 2016

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Vintage designers pick their favourite book jackets of 2016
Designing The Twelve Days of Christmas

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Penguin’s Art Department chooses 5 favourite book covers of 2016

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Behind the Beatrix Potter designer editions
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John Preston on the Thorpe affair

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John Preston on the Thorpe affair
Sharon Bolton on why she writes (to scare)

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Sharon Bolton on why she writes (to scare)

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What was Christmas like for Charles Dickens?

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What was Christmas like for Charles Dickens?
Giles Kristian on how The Last Viking inspired his novels

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Giles Kristian on how The Last Viking inspired his novels

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Meet Brodie McBride, the last pearl fisher of Scotland

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Meet Brodie McBride, the last pearl fisher of Scotland
The remarkable women that inspired A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

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The remarkable women that inspired A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

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Claire Douglas

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