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Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from Arabic
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Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith studied German and French at Selwyn College, Cambridge, then undertook a post-graduate diploma in translation and interpreting at the University of Bradford
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Something to Answer For
P.H. Newby’s 17th novel made literary history in 1969, when it was named as the inaugural winner of the Booker Prize
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Figures in a Landscape
Barry England’s powerful account of two escaped prisoners’ desperate attempt to outrun their pursuers across a dangerous and alien landscape
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Impossible Object
Nicholas Mosely presents eight carefully connected stories that pursue the notion that ‘those who like unhappy ends can have them, and those who don't will have to look for them’
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From Scenes Like These
Gordon Williams’ powerful and violent story of a Scottish adolescent growing up fast in the austere years following the Second World War
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The Nice and the Good
A government official lies dead - but awkward questions around his supposed suicide remain in Iris Murdoch’s thriller-meets-romantic comedy
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The Birds on the Trees
Nina Bawden’s portrait of a family in crisis raises fundamental questions about parents and children, offering tentative hope, but no tidy solutions
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The Driver's Seat
In Muriel Spark’s brilliantly dark novella, a search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience turns into a journey of self-destruction
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The Bay of Noon
Multi-award-winning Australian author Shirley Hazzard unfolds this intimate emotional drama in war-time Italy, against the fading grandeur of Naples