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Sam Garrett
Sam Garrett was born in Harrisburg, USA, in September 1956
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The Death of Murat Idrissi
In this spare, taut tale of confinement and escape, complicity and exploitation, Tommy Wieringa explores the value and fragility of human life
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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was raised to be a missionary but left home at 16. Her novel Frankissstein was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
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Gordon Williams
Gordon M. Williams was born in Paisley, Scotland. He was a journalist, a television scriptwriter and the author of more than 20 novels
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Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. She is the author of The Hiding Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000
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Shokoofeh Azar
Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2011. She is the author of essays, articles, and children’s books
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Nadeem Aslam
The Anglo-Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam was an early starter: aged 13, some 25 years before his Booker Prize longlisting, he had his first short story published in a Pakistani newspaper
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Paul Bailey
Paul Bailey was a novelist who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, with Peter Smart's Confessions (1977) and Gabriel's Lament (1986)
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The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith delivers an unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be, in this wry and thoughtful rite-of-passage novel
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C.P. Snow
C.P. Snow was born in Leicester, England. He started his professional life as a scientist, though writing was always his ultimate ambition