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Peter Kemp
Peter Kemp is a trenchant literary critic, who was nominated for the 2014 Hatchet Job of the Year award for a review in which he called Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch ‘a turkey’.
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Adam Mars-Jones
Adam Mars-Jones is a critic and novelist who, clearly possessing preternaturally good genes, was selected as one of Granta’s 20 ‘Best of British Young Novelists’ in both 1983 and 1993.
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Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna OBE is a Scottish and Sierra Leonean writer whose books have been translated into 22 languages.
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Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell wrote both under her own name and as ‘Barbara Vine’. In both guises she was a prolific and hugely successful author of crime and mystery novels
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Carmen Callil
The Australian-born Carmen Callil is a publisher, author and long-term champion of women’s writing. Her feminism, she says, is ‘concentrated on poltroonish men telling you what to do’.
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Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe is a novelist, biographer, musician and also the Duke of Prunes, his honorific as an aristocrat of the kingdom of Redonda, a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean.
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Ian Jack
Ian Jack is a journalist, author and former newspaper editor who believes that ‘Journalism is often at its most effective when it remembers its humblest duty - to witness and record.’
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Gillian Beer
Gillian Beer is an academic and two-time Booker Prize judge. For some 50 years she taught English literature at Cambridge, specialising in Victorian writers.
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Rachel Billington
Lady Rachel Mary Billington OBE is a British author.
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Jason Cowley
Jason Cowley is a journalist, magazine editor and writer.