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Dominic Smith

An interview with Dominic Smith

Dominic Smith takes readers on an expedition of museum collecting in the Victorian era and explains how intercultural contact inspired his novel Bright and Distant Shores.

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Return to Valetto jacket The Electric Hotel jacket The Last Painting of Sara de Vos jacket Bright and Distant Shores jacket
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    If you enjoyed:
    Return to Valetto

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  • Paolo Giordano

    Paolo Giordano

    Paolo Giordano is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010), which has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as The Human Body (2014), Like Family (2015), ... (more)

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    Return to Valetto

    Try:
    The Solitude of Prime Numbers
    by Paolo Giordano

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