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Type: Book
Date: 20 Oct 2016

Days Without End

Sebastian Barry’s atmospheric portrayal of America in the making is also an intensely poignant story of two men and the hands that were dealt to them by life

Type: Book
Date: 04 May 2017

Solar Bones

Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour

Type: Book
Date: 15 Aug 2017

Home Fire

Two families’ fates are devastatingly entwined in Kamila Shamsie’s searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Type: Book
Date: 06 Apr 2017

Reservoir 13

In an extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Jon McGregor tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss

Type: Book
Date: 15 Nov 2016

Swing Time

Zadie Smith’s dazzlingly energetic and deeply human story about friendship, music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them

Type: Book
Date: 07 Feb 2017

Autumn

The first volume of a shape-shifting seasonal quartet from Ali Smith about our time, past time, ageing, love and stories themselves

Type: Author

Tim Winton

Tim Winton has been described as one of the greatest living Australian writers

Type: Author

Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, and she has been nominated for the International Booker Prize three times

Type: Author

David Storey

David Storey was born in Wakefield, England. He studied at the Slade School of Art, before a writing career that yielded 15 plays and 11 novels

Type: Author

Thomas Kilroy

Thomas Kilroy wrote only one novel, The Big Chapel. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1971 and won the 1971 Guardian Fiction Prize