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Sarah Dunant and Peter James
This week's good reads are The Swerve: How The Renaissance Began by the American academic Stephen Greenblatt chosen by Sarah Dunant. Peter James favours Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut while Harriett's choice is Being Dead by Jim Crace
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