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Andrew Lycett

Andrew Lycett was educated at Charterhouse and went on to read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford. As a former foreign correspondent, he has traveled widely, specializing in Africa and the Middle East. A full-time author since the early 1990s, his books include highly regarded profiles of Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in North London.

2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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