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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
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Seascraper

A mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment
Universality by Natasha Brown
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Universality

A twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power
Michele Hutchison
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Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison is an editor, translator and blogger. She translated Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening
The Birthday Party
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The Birthday Party

This gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, from a major contemporary French writer, is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others - and from ourselves
The Little Stranger
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The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity
Martin Aitken
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Martin Aitken

Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of many Scandinavian writers, among them Karl Ove Knausgaard, Helle Helle, Hanne Ørstavik and Olga Ravn
Ross Benjamin
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Ross Benjamin

Ross Benjamin is the translator of numerous works of German-language literature
John Berger
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John Berger and the 1972 Booker Prize controversy

In 1972, after winning the Booker Prize for his experimental novel G., John Berger shocked the literary establishment by giving away half of his prize money to the British Black Panther movement. Find out more about the book and the controversy here