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Foyles Charing Cross Road w/e 19.5.13

  1. Inferno
  2. The great Gatsby
  3. Gone girl
  4. Fall of night
  5. The gigantic beard that was evil
  6. untitled
  7. The lost symbol
  8. Angels & Demons (Incl Inferno sample) FI
  9. Peter and Alice
  10. Sweet tooth

Foyles Royal Festival Hall w/e 19.5.13

  1. BBC Proms 2013: The Official Guide
  2. On the road bike
  3. Bring up the bodies
  4. The great Gatsby
  5. Inferno
  6. Sweet tooth
  7. We completely must go to London
  8. Politics and the English Language
  9. Gone girl
  10. London Mini Map

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Foyles St Pancras w/e 19.5.13

  1. Inferno
  2. The red house
  3. Gone girl
  4. Bring up the bodies
  5. The expats
  6. Sweet tooth
  7. Lean in
  8. The art of thinking clearly
  9. The Fast Diet Recipe Book
  10. The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared

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  1. Inferno
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  3. Gone girl
  4. The lost symbol
  5. The gigantic beard that was evil
  6. The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared
  7. Gatsby cocktails
  8. A game of thrones
  9. Sweet tooth

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  1. Indie booksellers call for action on Amazon's tax avoidance (Guardian)
  2. OCLC names Skip Prichard, previously with Ingram, President and CEO (PW)
  3. Ed Vulliamy wins Ryszard Kapuscinski award 2013, for Amexica: War Along the Borderline (Guardian)
  4. Five writers have already been selected as candidates for the 2013 Nobel Prize, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy has revealed (Galleycat)
  5. Melvyn Bragg pays tribute to Peter Mortimer, founder of Tyneside publisher Iron Press (Journal)
  6. No ebook edition for new Stephen King thriller Joyland (USA Today)
  7. In advance of PEN auction, writers' annotated first editions (Guardian)

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  1. A second supplier has contacted the Guardian following investigation of the retailer's tax affairs (Guardian)
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