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Type: Book
Date: 03 May 2018

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

Type: Author

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in January 1973

Type: Author

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’

Type: Author

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

Type: Book
Date: 25 Aug 2016

Fish Have No Feet

Jón Kalman Stefánsson's poetic, elemental yet modern Icelandic family saga spans the whole of Iceland's 20th-century history

Type: Author

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Jón Kalman Stefánsson was born in Reykjavík in 1963

Type: Author

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a writer and novelist whose books and stories have been translated into 23 languages

Type: Book
Date: 02 Jun 2011

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

Type: Author

Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil has published four collections of poetry and his novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012

Type: Author

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’