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Martin Amis

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Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day

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How Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

Penelope Lively

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Re-reading Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - a 20th century story that speaks to readers now more strongly than ever

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus  

Douglas Stuart

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Our stories matter: why we need more working-class voices in quality fiction

Circular forms, Sun, Moon by Robert Delaunay

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