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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1994

The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst’s 1994 novel is an enigmatic tale of obsession, mystery, lust and loss

Type: Book
Date: 05 Apr 2007

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan’s devastating novel about ways in which the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Type: Author

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia, and worked as an advocate in one of Kuala Lumpur's leading law firms before becoming a full-time writer

Type: Author

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh's novel Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008

Type: Author

Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies was born in Coventry to Welsh and Malay-Chinese parents and lives in the US. He featured on the 2003 Granta ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ list but has written just three novels

Type: Author

Gaynor Arnold

Gaynor Arnold’s first love was acting and she helped propel Christopher Hampton’s rise to stage fame when she played the lead in his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother?

Type: Author

Dan Jacobson

All for Love was the penultimate book in a distinguished career that saw the South African-born Dan Jacobson produce some 26 books of varied genres and styles, but all written with rigorous attention to detail

Type: Author

Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists

Type: Author

A.N. Wilson

A.N. (Andrew) Wilson is an extraordinarily prolific writer of non-fiction (some 29 books) as well as fiction (a further 24 books) and journalism, the trade for which he is perhaps best known

Type: Author

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is a prize magnet; her first five novels were all nominated for high-profile awards. The Electric Michelangelo, her second, started her long association with the Booker Prize