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Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Bippi Strangeways
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Sebastian Mode
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Barry Huggins
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The Hon. Jeremy Wellbourne
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Emma Booster
Her novels occupy the curious, contested space that stretches between literary fiction and commercial romance
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