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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman confessed he thought his publisher had submitted The Amber Spyglass for the Booker Prize 'in the spirit of putting 50p on Laughing Boy in the Grand National'
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Simon Pare
Simon Pare was born in Pembury, England, in July 1972
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The Flying Mountain
In Christoph Ransmayr’s deeply moving novel, an adventurous expedition to find a mythical mountain becomes a quest to understand the mystery of love
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Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr was born in Wels, Upper Austria, in March 1954
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Joseph
Joseph - Julian Rathbone’s highly unreliable early 19th-century narrator - tells the story of his poignant, comic and richly entertaining life
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Virginia Reeves
The fates have a say in the life of Virginia Reeves; she has one husband, two daughters and a three-legged pit bull terrier and their house has survived both a major earthquake and a fire
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Michael Redhill
Although Michael Redhill was born in Maryland, he was raised and educated in Canada. As well as fiction he writes poetry and plays, and has published several novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe
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David Doherty
David Doherty studied English and literary linguistics in the UK before moving to the Netherlands, where he has been translating Dutch texts since 1996
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Michèle Roberts
Michèle Roberts’ novel Daughters of the House (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award
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The Testament of Jessie Lamb
In Jane Rogers’ terrifyingly plausible novel, an ordinary girl faces an extraordinary situation. If the human race is to survive, it’s up to her