Juliet Townsend

Turning back the pages

Magic Moments: The Books the Boy Loved and Much Else Besides, by John Sutherland<br /> Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover’s Anthology of Literary Erudition, by John Sutherland<br /> <br type="_moz" />

  • Magic Moments: The Books the Boy Loved and Much Else Besides

    John Sutherland

    Profile, pp. 273

  • Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover’s Anthology of Literary Erudition

    John Sutherland

    Random House, pp. 290

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