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Published
Bloomsbury, November 2022
ISBN
9781526660381
Format
Softcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.5cm

What Writers Read 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by

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Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What's the book you wish you had written? What's the book that changed your life?

In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes - herself a voracious, omnivorous reader - collects short essays from bestselling and beloved writers, to discover the books they hold most dearly and made them who they are.

Curated and introduced by the award-winning writer and broadcaster Pandora Sykes, What Writers Read is a love letter to reading and the life-changing power of books.

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