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BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Chris Patten • Antonia Fraser Lucy Lethbridge • Erik Varden A.N. Wilson • Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Fiona Sampson • Mark Lawson John Burnside • Mary Kenny

Barbara Wood

Small is still beautiful

Francis Spufford The strangeness

of Catholicism

Hans Zollner Why abuse survivors

doubt the Synod

Alex South Behind bars at Christmas