This week’s giveaway book comes from the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson – a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world. It’s called Shrines of Gaiety and we have three to be won. 1926,
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