Icon bags Ben Aitken's portrait of an unlikely friendship

Icon Books has signed Ben Aitken's account of spending lockdown as companion to an 84-year-old, described as "an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship".  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 13:13:21 UTC ]

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