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Reading the World : Confessions of a Literary Explorer

20th February 20158th December 2015 Julie Corrigan

In 2012, Ann Morgan set out to read a book from every country in the world, focusing mainly on contemporary novels. On setting herself this challenge, she faced a number of obstacles including a lack of English translations, issues over censorship and discovering that some countries had very few published works. Through the generosity of […]

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