Book Description"The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art." ?Flannery O?Connor This collection of stories contains some of the best new short f...
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A brilliant personality, remarkable novelist and legendary letter writer, it is widely known that Nancy Mitford was also a bookseller. From 1942-6 she worked in Heywood Hi...
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