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What we've loved watching, reading and listening to โ€“ and why you might like it too.

About Michelle Gately

Writing words and selling stories for a living. Reading stories and talking about them for fun. One half of Better Words Podcast. I love a hardback, listen to way too many true crime podcasts and my tea of choice is Yorkshire.

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