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...A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Tyler returns to her usual Baltimore milieu for her 20th novel, another insightful study of family life....
...Their ordinariness is captured by a photograph in Hampton’s book that shows the high jumper Dorothy Tyler “training in her London back garden by leaping over her babies’ nappies”....
...LaBarre William Morrow ₤14.15, 336 pages A fun and energetic look at the “weirdos” who may be about to make you millions....
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