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Blake Morrison ... and books for an austere era

Reading list

The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Bridge by David Remnick
Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Collected Poems by WH Auden
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

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