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The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading.
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Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0571346790
- ISBN 13 9780571346790
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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