5 May The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
A crime, which, though perhaps not considered by law as the highest, is in truth and in fact, the blackest sin, which can contaminate the hands, or pollute the soul of man.
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Published on this day
- 2015 A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
- 2003 Return to Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
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