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- Published 20170502
- ISBN: 9781925498356
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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Sophie Allan
Sophie Allan is the founding editor-in-chief of the not-for-profit publisher Chart Collective, and the outgoing assistant prize manager of the Stella Prize. Her writing...
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