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Stephen Westaby. Kayo Chingonyi. On Balance. Sinead Morrissey. Useful Verses. Richard Osmond. From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is Wed Wabbit. It was fascinating. Great book so far. I have heard from two very professionally bookish people that Eleanor Oliphant is the best book they have read in ages and they both highly recommended it to me. So why am I still stingey and unwilling to shell out for the hardback? A conundrum.

But since it is on the shortlist…. Loved loved loved Home Fire! Tried Eleanor Oliphant a couple of days ago. Email Address:. Savidge Reads. Skip to content. Share this: Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Facebook. Like Loading November 21, at pm. November 22, at pm. Oh, that book, all the love. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Former annual literary awards.

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Victor Hugo —French novelist, poet, and dramatist. Jessica Douglas-Home. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse —British harpsichordist and clavichordist. Kate Summerscale. Marion "Joe" Carstairs —Wealthy British power boat racer known for their speed, eccentric lifestyle, and gender nonconformity. Stella Tillyard. Lord Edward FitzGerald —Irish revolutionary.

Jenny Uglow. William Hogarth —English artist and social critic. Amanda Foreman. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire —English socialite, political organiser, style icon, author, and activist. John Bayley. Iris Murdoch —Irish-born British writer and philosopher. Ian Kershaw. David Cairns. Hector Berlioz —French music composer and conductor. Nicholas Shakespeare.

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Bruce Chatwin —English writer, novelist and journalist. Hilary Spurling. Henri Matisse —20th-century French artist. Lorna Sage. Lorna Sage —English academic, literary critic and author. Claire Harman. Fanny Burney —English diarist, novelist and playwright; the first literary woman novelist. Tim Hilton. John Ruskin —English writer and art critic.

Diana Souhami. Alexander Selkirk —Scottish sailor and castaway. Anthony Bailey. Johannes Vermeer —Dutch painter. Adam Sisman. Geoffrey Wall. Gustave Flaubert —French novelist. Claire Tomalin. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. Samuel Pepys —English diarist. Miranda Carter. Anthony Blunt —British art historian, Soviet spy. Rosalind Franklin —British chemist, biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer.

Ysenda Maxtone Graham. The Real Mrs Miniver. Jan Struther —author of the book-turned-film Mrs. DJ Taylor. George Orwell —English author and journalist. John Campbell. Caroline Moorehead. Martha Gellhorn —American journalist.

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Andrew Wilson. Patricia Highsmith —American novelist and short story writer. John Guy. Mary, Queen of Scots —Queen of Scotland from to David McKie. Jabez Spencer Balfour —businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. John Sutherland. Stephen Spender —English poet and man of letters. Jeremy Treglown. Pritchett —British writer and literary critic.

Nigel Farndale. William and Margaret Joyce sAmerican-born fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster. Richard Mabey bornBritish writer and broadcaster. Alexander Masters. Stuart: A Life Backwards. Stuart Clive Shorterprisoner and a career criminal. Brian Thompson. Maggie Fergusson. George Mackay Brown —Scottish poet —