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May
A Body Made of Glass
A critically acclaimed history of hypochondria.
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The Way to the Sea
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May
Shedunnit
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Sep
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31
Aug
this is me trying
There is a story about Oscar Wilde that I was told in my first week as an undergraduate that I
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28
Dec
a list of small, inconsequential pleasures
For no particular reason, yesterday I was thinking about the really quite terrible 2007 film Evan Almighty. You don’t
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28
Dec
the process of reading as unconscious as breathing
I have really struggled with reading in the last six months. This week, I finally tidied up the windowsill next
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28
Dec
a brain fizzing combination of accomplishment and virtue
In the twelve days between 26 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, I went to the tip four times. The
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28
Dec
rummaging through all the paper
I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for
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28
Dec
how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?
I didn’t write to you last Friday as I had planned. I was busy reenacting this scene:
I had
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