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Susan’s Bookshelves: The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passerlay with Nadene Ghouri

I recently gave a talk at Catford Library about my latest book, All Booked Up. It followed a meeting of the library’s book group and two of its members stayed for my event. They were full of, and passionate about,  the book they’d just read and had been discussing: The Lightless Sky. So I bought […]

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