An entertaining tale of grit, fecklessness and Northern Soul
Rare Singles, a lively and good-natured new novel by Benjamin Myers, brings an ageing US soul singer together with an English superfan
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Rare Singles, a lively and good-natured new novel by Benjamin Myers, brings an ageing US soul singer together with an English superfan
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