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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Harold Fry, the unassuming hero of Rachel Joyce’s life-affirming story, is a man on a mission – to walk more than 600 miles to save a friend
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Mary Renault
Mary Renault was born Eileen Mary Challans, in London. She was best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
In Mark Haddon’s widely acclaimed novel, an unusual and brilliant boy insists on investigating the mysterious death of a neighbour’s dog
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness
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Judas
Steeped in desire and curiosity, Amos Oz’s Judas is both a tragi-comic coming-of-age tale and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the world-renowned author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays
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Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Canada. An acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist, he was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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V. S. Naipaul
Novelist and travel writer V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad. He studied at Oxford University, then moved to London to work for the BBC
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Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing is widely considered one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin and made her writing debut with Under the Net in 1954. She wrote 26 novels and several books of philosophy