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Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz was born in Sydney. A Fraction of the Whole (2008) was his first book, followed by Quicksand (2015)

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James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson is often described as a literary loner – a refined prose stylist who, although English-born, has spent most of his life outside the mainstream in the Philippines and Tuscany

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Stanley Middleton

Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958

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David Storey

David Storey was born in Wakefield, England. He studied at the Slade School of Art, before a writing career that yielded 15 plays and 11 novels

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Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh is a London-based writer from Wales

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Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013. She was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She is the author of two internationally celebrated novels: The Rehearsal and The Luminaries

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Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is an Anglo-Nigerian author of books of fiction and verse. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize 2019

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland

Aerial vertical view of artic sea, Senja, Norway.

Date: 02/09/2024
Type: Feature

Reading guide: The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

In the first volume of a trilogy of novels, Jon Fosse explores profound questions: what makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life instead of another?

Date: 31/03/2005
Type: Book

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Two feuding sisters join forces against their aged father's glamorous, gold-digging new girlfriend in Marina Lewycka’s hilarious debut novel