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Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood is an American novelist, poet and essayist

Type: Author

J.G. Farrell

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool, England, and spent much of his life abroad. He finally settled in London, where he wrote most of his novels

Type: Book
Date: 15 Mar 2012

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

Type: Author

Mary Renault

Mary Renault was born Eileen Mary Challans, in London. She was best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece

Type: Book
Date: 17 Jun 2003

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

Type: Book
Date: 06 May 2021

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

Type: Book
Date: 04 May 2017

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

Type: Author

Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Canada. An acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist, he was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Type: Author

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

Type: Author

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