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James Robertson

James Kelman famously brought Scottish vernacular to the Booker Prize in 1994. James Robertson, however, has gone further: he publishes Scots-language books for children

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Derek Robinson

Born in Bristol, England, Derek Robinson is a British author best known for military aviation novels full of black humour

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1978

A Five-Year Sentence

Bernice Rubens’ intriguing novel about a factory worker who is forced to change her drastic retirement plan when she receives a diary as a gift

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Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens became the first woman (and to date the only Welsh novelist) to win the Booker Prize when she triumphed in its second year, 1970, with The Elected Member

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1988

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie’s magical realist epic. Hugely complex and multilayered, it remains one of the most controversial books in recent literary history

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Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright was born in Hampshire, England, in December 1953

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Ahmed Saadawi

Ahmed Saadawi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in May 1973

Type: Book
Date: 07 Feb 2019

Mouthful of Birds

Spine-tingling and strange, Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday

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James Scudamore

James Scudamore’s peripatetic upbringing provided him with the ‘exposure to other cultures at an impressionable age’ that has informed his four novels to date

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Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins is a freelance journalist and literary translator