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Type: Book
Date: 01 Mar 2018

The Dinner Guest

A poignant weave of two tragedies in Gabriela Ybarra’s life, the public death of her grandfather and the private pain of caring for her dying mother

Type: Author

Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. Her novel A Little Life was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015

Type: Author

Gabriela Ybarra

Gabriela Ybarra was born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1983

Type: Author

José Eduardo Agualusa

José Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo, Angola, in 1960

Type: Author

Willem Anker

Willem Anker was born in Citrusdal in the Western Cape in 1979 and lectures in creative writing at Stellenbosch University

Type: Author

John Arden

John Arden was born in Barnsley, England. He has been widely lauded as one of the most significant British playwrights of the 1950s and 60s

Type: Author

Deborah Bragan-Turner

Deborah Bragan-Turner was born in Middlesborough, UK in February 1953

Type: Book
Date: 21 Mar 2019

The Faculty of Dreams

Sara Stridsberg revisits and reimagines the sad, strange life of Valerie Solanas: writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol

Type: Author

Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg was born in Solna, Sweden, in August 1972

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel

What tragedy turned O'Neill's hotel from a plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? William Trevor sends Mrs Eckdorf to investigate