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    -    Niall Williams' wonderful History of the Rain is to be BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime this week and next, beginning tonight at 10.45.

    -    Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

    -    All your comments regarding Elizabeth Goudge demonstrate such affection for her books; that's a lovely thing to see, and the best advert.

    -    Speaking of adverts, I'm now in the final 100 pages of In this House of Brede and I don't want it to end!