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    THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS

    Apr 05, 2023 1 minute

    Picador,352pp£18.99

    The title is clearly not misleading: ‘majestic’, ‘epic’ and ‘immense’ are just some of the adjectives used to describe this book, with Lucy Hughes-Hallett in the adding that she would, and ending in Shanghai in 1949.

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