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The Shape of the Ruins
An author is lured into a serpentine conspiracy theory in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s gripping tale of intrigue and assassination in Colombia
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in January 1973
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Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is unusual in being equally feted as a novelist and biographer. His facility in both was not, he says, a cause for celebration: in the literary world, ‘I was treated with derision and contempt’
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Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse was longlisted for his fifth and last novel. The author put his own experiences as a doctor into his disturbing tale of a physician struggling with murderous urges
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Fish Have No Feet
Jón Kalman Stefánsson's poetic, elemental yet modern Icelandic family saga spans the whole of Iceland's 20th-century history
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón Kalman Stefánsson was born in Reykjavík in 1963
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Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien is a writer and novelist whose books and stories have been translated into 23 languages
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Derby Day
D.J. Taylor’s evocative novel about a clever betting sting, bursting with memorable characters and rich with the hustle of Victorian England
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Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil has published four collections of poetry and his novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012
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D.J. Taylor
D.J. Taylor was a judge on the Booker Prize 2003 but his own longlisting eight years later came, he says, as ‘a great surprise as I always fancy I know the type of book that Booker judges go for’