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The Eighth Life
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The Eighth Life

Tumbling down the years, great characters and greater relationships come and go, in Nino Haratischvili’s compelling epic family drama
The Long Song
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The Long Song

Andrea Levy’s bittersweet novel about the last days of slavery in Jamaica is powerful and intimate - and full of mischievous surprise
Hotel du Lac
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Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning novel focuses on a novelist who has taken refuge from life in a hotel on the misty shores of Lake Geneva
The Next Big Thing
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The Next Big Thing

Darkly comic and deeply sympathetic, Anita Brookner’s novel simply asks: if you were finally free to make your own choices in life, what would you do?
Anita Brookner
Over the course of 28 years, Anita Brookner wrote 24 books. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her final one, Strangers, in 2009
Great Granny Webster
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Great Granny Webster

Caroline Blackwood’s macabre and wickedly funny portrait of a monstrous, iron-willed dowager presiding over her long-suffering family
 Caroline Blackwood
Caroline Blackwood was a prolific journalist and her novels are widely praised for their wit and intelligence
John Banville
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John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. His novel The Sea won the Booker Prize in 2005
A white woman smiles closed mouthed at the camera. She has light blond hair pinned up and wears delicate jewellery, a white top and peach cardigan.
Elizabeth Strout has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times
Marlon James
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Marlon James

Marlon James won the Booker Prize in 2015. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica