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David Mitchell
David Mitchell has written nine novels and adapted his work for screen and stage. He was born in 1969 on the Lancashire coast, but was raised in Malvern, Worcestershire
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins was born in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of six novels, and two collections of short stories
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Matthew Kneale
Born in London, Matthew Kneale is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sweet Thames which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is a multi-award-winning author, who made a huge impact with her first novel, White Teeth
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Ali Smith
Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories
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Eoin McNamee
A Northern Irish-born novelist whose books centre on death – usually violent – set in Troubles-era Ulster. The Blue Tango concerns the real-life murder of a politician’s daughter
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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, the cultural broadcaster and peer, was Booker Prize longlisted for the second time with A Son of War, the second volume in his The Soldier’s Return quartet
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel’s warmly engaging philosophical novel is brimming with invention, ideas and playful conceits. A true modern classic
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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is an author and journalist who was chosen by Granta to appear on their prestigious, once-a-decade list of the twenty best young British novelists
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Julie Myerson
Although Julie Myerson made her name with her often dark fiction, it was her near-the-knuckle writings about her own children that caused a minor scandal and divided her readers