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Book reviews and bestseller (Sept. 20, 2013)

This week: The Duchess of Cambridge, how Denmark’s Jews escaped the Nazis and a memoir about leaving things behind

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September 20, 2013

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Our latest book reviews:

Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter, reviewed by Charlie Gillis
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, reviewed by Richard Warnica
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Century by Charlotte Gray, reviewed by Rebecca Caldwell

I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman, reviewed by Sarah Murdoch

Kate: The Future Queen by Katie Nicholl, reviewed by Patricia Treble

Countrymen: The Untold Story Of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped The Nazis by Bo Lidegaard, reviewed by Brian Bethune

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