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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

In Anne Tyler’s 20th novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker in 2015, the narrative spools back through three generations of Baltimore’s Whitshank family, revealing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have shaped them

John Hodgson
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John Hodgson

John Hodgson, who was born in 1951, taught at the Universities of Pristina and Tirana after studying English literature at Cambridge and Newcastle
Jessica Cohen
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Jessica Cohen

Jessica Cohen is a British-Israeli-American literary translator who often works with Israeli author David Grossman
Jordan Stump
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Jordan Stump

Jordan Stump has translated many authors into English from French, including Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Honoré de Balzac
Two individuals sit in an auditorium. One has short hair and glasses. One has longer hair. Both are wearing cardigans and smiling at the camera.
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, has won the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Set in the borderlands of English history immediately before the liberation of the Swinging Sixties, Ian McEwan’s short novel reveals how a life can be irrevocably altered by a moment’s twist of fate