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Type: Book
Date: 04 Oct 2018

The Remainder

Intense, intelligent and extraordinarily sensitive, Alia Trabucco Zerán’s remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of generational trauma

Type: Author

Alia Trabucco Zeran

Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Santiago, Chile, in August 1983

Type: Author

Barbara Trapido

There is a large dose of autobiography in Frankie & Stankie, which deals with two sisters growing up in South Africa before one emigrates to England: Trapido was raised in Durban and now lives in Oxford

Type: Author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Ireland. He wrote many novels, and was a renowned writer of short stories

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Jane Urquhart

A Canadian novelist’s multi-generational story of a family of carvers used the First World War as a way to look at memory, history and the redemptive powers of art

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1988

The Lost Father

Marina Warner’s imaginary memoir of an Italian family, which in turn explores the passions and prejudices of the narrator’s imagination

Type: Author

Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh was the author of several highly praised novels for adults and many widely acclaimed children’s books

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Alan Warner

The Scots-born Alan Warner had a lively pre-writing career path: after immersing himself in the Spanish rave scene he worked as a train driver, musician, barman and bouncer (he is six foot three)

Type: Author

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead has gradually worked through his three first names: as a child he went by his first name, Arch; then his second name, Chipp; and later by his current moniker Colson

Type: Author

Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa was born in the Netherlands in May 1967