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World Service,08 Aug 1991,28 mins

Around the Spanish Main

Meridian

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Hugh O'Shaughnessy on his book Around the Spanish Main: independent publisher Peter Owen on his early days and new collection of short stories The Peter Owen Anthology: Nick Rankin on what books Londoners are buying: crime novel Strange Loyalties by Scottish writer William McIlvanney: Chadwyck-Healey publishing group digitise 200 million words of English poetry - in China.

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