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First up in the new year is Prince Harry’s memoir about giving up royal duties to marry actress Meghan Markle and move to the US. The provocatively titled Spare, complete with a cover of the royal looking like his Madame Tussaud’s stand-in and coming on the tail of the couple’s button-pushing Netflix series, will doubtless shift palace-loads.

Patrick Radden Keefe, author of the prize-winning opiate saga , in February publishes , the tale of a massive people-smuggling operation

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