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Damon Galgut author of The Promise

‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’

All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
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All the Little Bird-Hearts

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s lyrical and poignant debut novel offers a deft exploration of motherhood, vulnerability and the complexity of human relationships
The Books of Jacob
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The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk's portrayal of Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence
The Flying Mountain
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The Flying Mountain

In Christoph Ransmayr’s deeply moving novel, an adventurous expedition to find a mythical mountain becomes a quest to understand the mystery of love
The Death of Murat Idrissi
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The Death of Murat Idrissi

In this spare, taut tale of confinement and escape, complicity and exploitation, Tommy Wieringa explores the value and fragility of human life
Dirt Music
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Dirt Music

Tim Winton’s modern love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, and whose hopes have all but dried up
Tram 83
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Tram 83

In Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila plunges the reader into the atmosphere of a gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colourfully exotic
Like a Fading Shadow
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Like a Fading Shadow

A stylish blend of fiction, memoir and biography that intertwines assassin James Earl Ray’s last days on the run with author Muñoz Molina’s own past
Pasmore
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Pasmore

David Storey introduces Colin Pasmore. At night he runs races in his dreams, losing ‘to every dullard and idler in England’. His days are no better
Holiday
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Holiday

Stanley Middleton’s prize-winning novel is both a precisely observed portrait of English provincial life and a moving exploration of grief and regret