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Alison Macleod

In 1987, aged 22, Alison MacLeod moved from her native Canada to England, supposedly for one year to read for an MA. The moved has proved rather more permanent: she is still here

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Niall Williams

Dublin-born Niall Williams was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2014. He cut his teeth as a writer with four non-fiction books written with his American wife Christine Breen about life in their cottage in County Clare, Ireland

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Richard House

Richard House is a visual artist as well as writer and when The Kills was published digitally, it was accompanied by related short films and audio projects of his own devising

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist who has received numerous awards across her writing career

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David Nicholls

David Nicholls’s began his career as an actor, under the stage name David Holdaway, before becoming a novelist and television and film scriptwriter, adapting his own works and classic novels

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh was born in Boston Massachusetts and is an American author and novelist

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Laila Lalami

English is Laila Lalami’s fourth language. Born in Morocco, she first spoke Moroccan Arabic, before learning Standard Arabic and French – the language of her first writings – and only then English

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Anna Smaill

Both The Chimes and her book of poems, The Violinist in Spring, hint at Anna Smaill’s first love; for years she studied the violin with the intention of becoming a professional performer

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Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme Macrae Burnet has been nominated for the Booker Prize twice – shortlisted in 2016 and longlisted in 2022

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Fiona Mozley

Fiona Mozley grew up in York and lives in Edinburgh. The setting for her debut novel – Elmet – came to her on a train journey after visiting her parents in Yorkshire