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with Ben Lyttleton and illustrated by Spike Gerrell (2017)
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691:UK public library membership
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275:for Non-Fiction 2010.
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826:'Learn to love maths'
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177:. He was educated at
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273:Samuel Johnson Prize
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1348:on 15 December 2017
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665:"Bellos, Alexander"
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447:with Edmund Harris
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