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Type: Book
Date: 15 Jul 2021

Cursed Bunny

Bora Chung presents a genre-defying collection of short stories, which blur the lines between magical realism, horror and science fiction

Type: Judge

Robin Ray

Robin Ray, who died in 1998, was a silky-voiced actor, broadcaster and teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who became one of the founders of the Classic FM radio station.

Type: Judge

David Hughes

David Hughes was a novelist who was reduced to tears by Souvenir, the film of his book The Pork Butcher. They were not tears of joy: ‘That was terrible, terrible,’ he said on leaving the cinema.

Type: Judge

Brendan Gill

The American Brendan Gill, who died in 1997, was a writer for the New Yorker, to which he contributed more than 1,200 articles, mostly about architecture or the theatre, over a 60-year span.

Type: Judge

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was a poet and perhaps the most famous librarian in the world. In 2016, he was commemorated with a stone memorial in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Type: Judge

Derwent May

Derwent May, who died in 2020, was a literary and arts editor, whose first and greatest love was birdwatching, the main subject of the nature columns he wrote for the Times for nearly 40 years.

Type: Judge

Angela Huth

Angela Huth is a journalist, novelist and playwright. She is also a keen dancer who once managed to secure a spin round the dance-floor with Anton Du Beke from Strictly Come Dancing.

Type: Judge

Clare Boylan

Clare Boylan, who died in 2006, was an Irish journalist, author and cat-lover, who once took a two-chapter fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë and completed it under the title Emma Brown.

Type: Judge

A.J. Ayer

Alfred Ayer – known professionally as A.J. Ayer and privately as ‘Freddie’ – died in 1989 and was a philosopher who once had a run-in with the heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson at a party.

Type: Judge

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux is an American-born novelist and renowned travel writer, who believes: ‘You cannot be a grumpy traveller. You will not get anywhere. You’ll be killed, you’ll be insulted.’