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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden was the author of more than 50 books for adults and children and was perhaps best known for her children’s novel Carrie’s War (1973), a story of wartime child evacuees

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Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is an author, playwright and screenwriter

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Carol Birch

Carol Birch is the author of ten novels, including Scapegallows (2008) and Turn Again Home (2003), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize

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Laurent Binet

Laurent Binet was born in Paris, France, in July 1972

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Ronan Bennett

Ronan Bennett was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004. This caused controversy: as a young man he was twice imprisoned, once for involvement with the IRA and once for anarchist terrorism offences

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John Bemrose

John Bemrose is not a prolific novelist: The Island Walkers, a bestseller in his native Canada, was followed by a second novel, the Last Woman, in 2009 but, since then, nothing

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Oyinkan Braithwaite

Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University

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Malcolm Bradbury

Aged 27, Malcolm Bradbury was in hospital with a serious heart condition that he wasn’t expected to survive. He both survived and used his confinement to write his breakthrough novel, Eating People Is Wrong

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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was an Irish-British writer whose fiction, including her ghost stories, demonstrate her interest in ‘life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off’

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Susanna Clarke

As if by magic, Susanna Clarke’s publishers knew the supernatural tale Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell would be a huge success, printing 250,000 copies before it was even published