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Homework: A Memoir Geoff Dyer (Canongate, £20) ...

For about a decade I was convinced I was mortally ill. The identity of my illness changed several times, but the fear was always the same: in short, that I was dying; that I had some dreadful and no d

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A history of the book business

Annie Bennett, 58, shares her moving story of discovering she had not one but two types of cancer, and how both have brought a new positivity to her life.

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