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Danuta Kean 9th February 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey

Talking Point: Fifty Shades of Grey

Danuta Kean looks at the fastest-selling paperback of all time – the publishing phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey – and asks: “Why?”

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