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Already received for bwl 117:
Fiction
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Horse - Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Shy Creatures - Clare Chambers
The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
The Wizard of the Kremlin - Giuliano Da Empoli
Kairos - Jenny Erpenbecj
The Flight of the Maidens - Jane Gardam
Precipice - Robert Harris
The Name of the Sister - Gail Jones
Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto
Green Ink - Stephen May
Nuns and Soldiers - Iris Murdoch
Fresh Water for Flowers - Valerie Perrin
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
By Any Other Name - Jodi Picoult
The Fair Botanists - Sara Sheridan
Flesh - David Szalay
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
The Hummingbird - Sandro Veronesi
Sword of Honour trilogy - Evelyn Waugh
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton: selected and with an introduction by Roxana Robinson - Edith Wharton
Someone at a Distance - Dorothy Whipple
Non-Fiction
The Wisdom of Donkeys -
All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
Pour Me - A A Gill
The Best of A A Gill - A A Gill
Presidents at War - Stephen M Gillon
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955 - Harald Jahner
The Garden Against Time - Olivia Laing
Spring - Michael Morpurgo
Patriot - Alexei Navalny
The Story of a Murder - Hallie Rubenhold
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