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...Lobb collected a £25,000 cheque from Cynthia Payne — that’s Madame Payne, who ran a famous brothel in Streatham during the 1970s, where she took payment in Luncheon Vouchers....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
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