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Patrick McCabe

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including Crossing the River, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993

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Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright worked in advertising and directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He also somehow found time to write 17 novels

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Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan is one of the most exciting and well-respected chroniclers of contemporary Britain

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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. He was born in County Wexford, Ireland

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Jim Crace

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including Continent, winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize

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Shena Mackay

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was 14

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Ahdaf Soueif

Author and leading journalist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She wrote the bestselling novel The Map of Love, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1999

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Martin Booth

An internationally renowned writer and biographer, Martin Booth was also an accomplished novelist

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Tim Parks

Tim Parks is unique among Booker Prize authors in also being shortlisted for a major sports book prize (for A Season with Verona) and a health book prize (for Teach Us to Sit Still)