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Type: Book
Date: 31 Mar 2022

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Under attack from within, Lia tries to keep the landscapes of her past, her present and her body separate. But time and bodies are porous, and unpredictable

Type: Book
Date: 07 Oct 2021

Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet offers a dazzlingly inventive - and often wickedly humorous - meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself

Type: Book
Date: 28 Oct 2021

Treacle Walker

This latest fiction from a remarkable and enduring talent brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of the world around him

Type: Book
Date: 24 Mar 2022

The Trees

A violent history refuses to be buried in Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence

Type: Book
Date: 03 May 2022

Trust

A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, Trust challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history

Type: Author

Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. She is an award-winning writer, but with After Sappho she joins that select band of authors who have been longlisted for the Booker for their debut novel

Type: Book
Date: 04 Aug 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel won the Booker Prize in 2022. It is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war

Type: Book
Date: 19 Oct 2021

Oh William!

Bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time

Type: Book
Date: 17 Mar 2022

Booth

Karen Joy Fowler’s epic novel about an ill-fated family of thespians, drinkers and dreamers, whose most infamous son is destined to commit a terrible and violent act

Type: Author

Alan Garner

Alan Garner was born in Cheshire in 1934 and grew up in Alderley Edge. In 2001, he was awarded an OBE for his services to literature