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‘Magisterial’ Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week)’Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree’s tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.’ David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando – before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited.
