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Robert Edric

Robert Edric is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage and he writes under both names. He is a prolific author who never stints on quality, as evidenced by his 2002 and 2006 longlistings

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is one of a small group of authors to have been nominated for the Booker Prize five times

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Tash Aw

Born in Taiwan, Tash Aw is the author of five novels, three of which have been longlisted for the Booker Prize

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Harry Thompson

Harry Thompson was a highly successful British television producer who somehow found time to write several widely acclaimed books

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Kate Grenville

Australian author Kate Grenville’s fifth novel, The Idea of Perfection, won the Orange Prize in 2001

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Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker was named as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists by Granta in 2005. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages

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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York

Type: Book
Date: 26 Feb 2015

The Fishermen

Chigozie Obioma combines classic African storytelling with contemporary fiction in this haunting fable suffused with supernatural power

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Chigozie Obioma

Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice, and judged the prize in 2021

Type: Book
Date: 14 Sep 2017

Die, My Love

With raw intensity, Ariana Harwicz interrogates motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terror of desire, the senseless brutality of it all