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Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations

Each month one of our distinguished Fellows selects the books they would recommend for reading groups.

Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson is an acclaimed biographer, reporter and literary critic. His biography, Primo Levi: A Life, won the Royal Society of Literature’s W.H. Heinemann Award. His reportage, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica, was awarded the Royal Society of …

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