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William Wall

William Wall’s novels, Alice Falling, Minding Children, The Map of Tenderness and This Is the Country have all been published to critical acclaim

Type: Author

Sam Garrett

Sam Garrett was born in Harrisburg, USA, in September 1956

Type: Book
Date: 08 Aug 2019

The Death of Murat Idrissi

In this spare, taut tale of confinement and escape, complicity and exploitation, Tommy Wieringa explores the value and fragility of human life

Type: Author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson was raised to be a missionary but left home at 16. Her novel Frankissstein was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019

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Gordon Williams

Gordon M. Williams was born in Paisley, Scotland. He was a journalist, a television scriptwriter and the author of more than 20 novels

Type: Author

Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. She is the author of The Hiding Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000

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Shokoofeh Azar

Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2011. She is the author of essays, articles, and children’s books

Type: Author

Nadeem Aslam

The Anglo-Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam was an early starter: aged 13, some 25 years before his Booker Prize longlisting, he had his first short story published in a Pakistani newspaper

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Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey was a novelist who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, with Peter Smart's Confessions (1977) and Gabriel's Lament (1986)

Type: Book
Date: 12 Sep 2002

The Autograph Man

Zadie Smith delivers an unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be, in this wry and thoughtful rite-of-passage novel