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Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby examined the travails of contemporary marriage, parenthood and morality through a couple who embark on a quest to be and do good and find it is harder than they imagined

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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is internationally renowned both as a commentator on moral, ethical and political issues and as a novelist

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Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt looks beyond the traditional confines of fiction and has published papers in such peer journals as Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy

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M.J. Hyland

M.J Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This Is How (2009)

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Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson is the prize-winning author of the novel The Underground Man, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1997

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Jennifer Johnston

Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin in 1930. She is one of the foremost Irish writers of her, or any, generation

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Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare, born in 1936 in Albania, was the country’s best-known poet and novelist

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Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce started writing young: ‘I wrote my autobiography when I was eight,’ she says, ‘because I was worried my writing talents had gone unnoticed. (I was right. They had)’

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Lloyd Jones

Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand writer, and the author of several novels and short story collections

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Gail Jones

The author of eight novels, Gail Jones is an Australian academic who teaches cinema as well as literature. Unsurprisingly, images are central to her conception of fiction