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Tom Crewe was recently named to Granta’s list of Britain’s best young novelists. “The New Life,” his acclaimed fact-based debut novel about two men collaborating on an 1890s study supporting homosexual freedom, is now available in paperback.
‘Miss Marjoribanks’ by Margaret Oliphant (1866)
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‘The Vagabond’ by Colette (1910)
‘The Tree of Man’ by Patrick White (1955)
‘Ayala’s Angel’ by Anthony Trollope (1881)
‘The Comforters’ by Muriel Spark (1957)
‘Maid and Manservant’ by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1947)
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