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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

Type: Book

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

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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

Type: Author

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