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David Diop

David Diop was born in France and raised in Senegal; he is professor of 18th-century literature in southwest France

Type: Book
Date: 10 Sep 2019

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood’s spellbinding sequel to The Handmaid's Tale was inspired by readers’ responses to the first book and ‘the world we’ve been living in’

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1977

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym’s compassionate and funny novel about four people in late middle-age with different eccentricities but the same problem: loneliness

Type: Author

Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym was born in Oswestry, England. She was acclaimed as ‘the most underrated writer of the century’ by Philip Larkin

Type: Author

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is a critically acclaimed writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner

Type: Book
Date: 01 Aug 1991

The Van

The hilarious third novel of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy focuses on the senior Jimmy Rabbitte and his hugely unsuccessful business venture

Type: Book
Date: 03 Mar 2015

The Sellout

Paul Beatty’s biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court

Type: Author

Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout, which won the Booker Prize in 2016

Type: Author

George Saunders

George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize 2017

Type: Author

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland