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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

Type: Author

Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins is a freelance journalist and literary translator

Type: Book
Date: 08 Sep 2015

A Whole Life

Robert Seethaler’s tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude looks at the moments, big and small, that make us who we are

Type: Author

Robert Seethaler

Robert Seethaler is an Austrian writer living in Berlin

Type: Book
Date: 11 Oct 2002

Dorian

Will Self transports Oscar Wilde’s original tale of decadence and sin to a hedonistic late 20th century, with brutally chilling effect

Type: Author

Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert is the daughter of an Australian father and a German mother. Her novel The Dark Room was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001

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Nicholas Shakespeare

As a former newspaper literary editor, Nicholas Shakespeare had written about innumerable Booker Prizes before he found himself longlisted and suddenly a participant rather than an observer

Type: Author

Joan Barfoot

A Canadian novelist’s potent story of small town life and a middle-aged woman and restless 17-year-old boy whose lives are changed after a chance and tragic meeting in an ice-cream parlour

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A.L. Barker

A L (Audrey Lilian) Barker – poet, short-story writer and novelist – was an author who gained more critical accolades than sales. She was shortlisted for John Brown’s Body

Type: Author

Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford was born in Charlottenburg, Germany. She published her first book, The Sudden View: A Mexican Journey, in 1953