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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
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