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Front cover of The Witch
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The Witch

A mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes apparent, have skills far beyond her own
Kira Josefsson
Kira Josefsson is a writer and literary translator working between Swedish and English 
Booker Prize winning books
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Interview highlights

Want to find out more about the authors who have won or been nominated for the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize? We've spoken to them to find out how they researched and wrote their best-known books
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John Gross

John Gross was an academic prodigy who became a pre-eminent man of letters. He was frequently - and quite probably accurately - described as ‘the best-read man in Britain’.
Anthony Curtis, who died in 2014, was a life-long litterateur with a distinguished career as a lecturer, literary editor, journalist, critic and expert on Somerset Maugham.