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(First, a little note about The Gentleman's Daughter - I'm only in the intro but there's historiography and she's talking about how social power =/= economic power and how primary sources that go on about evil awful women doing nothing to enrich society could just as easily be about the writer's issues with women as women suddenly becoming time-wasters. Nice!)

Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde. He is a magnificent bastard.

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