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What I did in 1999

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.

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Giving up the Ghost
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Pessimism and Boys
Sheila Fitzpatrick reads the diary of a Soviet schoolgirl

On the Blower
Peter Clarke on the Journals of Woodrow Wyatt

The Age of EJH
Perry Anderson on Eric Hobsbawm’s Memoirs