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Miracles on Maple Hill
John Brown's Body
A Bright Shining Lie
Bring Up the Bodies
The trumpeter of Krakow
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Saint Joan
The dragon waiting
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Song of Achilles
Midnight's Children
A Mercy
The Remains of the Day
True History of the Kelly Gang
The Looming Tower
Hitty, her first hundred years
Locomotive
Freedom from fear
Offshore
An Artist of the Floating World
Olio
A Pale View of Hills
The matchlock gun
The Second World War
A history of the English-speaking peoples
The swerve
Wolf Hall
Beloved
Kira-kira
Subtle Is the Lord
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