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24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

This is a great time of the year to make progress with that stack of unread books. One of my daughter’s gifts was What W.H. Auden Can Do For You by Alexander McCall Smith, famous for rather different books. The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a hugely successful series of 15 novels; the first published in 1999.

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