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Ion Trewin
Ion Trewin was a bookman through and through. As a publisher he was responsible for Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark and in 2006 became director of the Booker Prize.
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Roy Fuller
Roy Fuller CBE was professor of poetry at the University of Oxford but started his career as a solicitor before working for a building society. From 1972-79 he was a member of the Board of Governors of the BBC.
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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.
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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.
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Walter Allen
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.
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The Booker Prize 2022 ‘Stimulating and Surprising’ Longlist Announced
The Booker Prize 2022 Longlist Announced
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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
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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
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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
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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