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The fox and the star has won waterstones book of the year 2015, beating highprofile literary works from the likes of elena ferrante and. Waterstones reduces losses despite dip in sales books the. Sarah perry discusses writing our waterstones book of the. Though its hard to say what exactly has caused the apparent slowdown of digital book sales, this does spell good news for fans of physical books in the u. Oct 31, 20 image caption six books are on the shortlist for this year s book of the year prize. Financial times best fiction books of the year 2015.
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