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Helen Smith
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Helen Smith lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction and modern literature at the University of East Anglia. The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett is her first book; it received a RSL-Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011.

Books by Helen Smith

The Uncommon Reader

The absorbing portrait of a man who shaped the literary landscape as we know it

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