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Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson was a novelist and short story writer, a founder of the fabled creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia, and one of England's first openly gay authors.
Mary Wilson
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Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson, who died in 2018 aged 102, was a poet and the wife of the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. She was the subject of the spoof ‘Mrs Wilson’s Diary’ in Private Eye.
Walter Allen was a literary critic and novelist who entered the world of letters not via the traditional route of Oxbridge but in his home town of Birmingham.
The Colony by Audrey Magee
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The Colony

In Audrey Magee's lyrical and brooding fable, two outsiders visit a small island off the west coast of Ireland, with unforeseen and haunting consequences
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
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After Sappho

A joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers from the past, as they battle for control over their lives, for liberation and for justice
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
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Glory

This energetic and exhilarating joyride from NoViolet Bulawayo is the story of an uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
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Nightcrawling

At once agonising and mesmerising, Nightcrawling presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world
Audrey Magee
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Audrey Magee

Audrey Magee was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022