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Northern Irish writer praised by judges for his ‘fierce intellectual determination’ wins annual award in memory of the late Nobel laureate
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Assimilation, identity, conservatism and sex are among the issues explored in this study of Britain’s fastest-growing minority population
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The author on the painful recollections of Tim Winton, bonding with a town’s memory of Dylan Thomas and one of the best 30 minutes of TV she’s ever seen
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The complicated love for her German family inspired the writer’s novel about the Holocaust
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Kathryn Heyman’s 20 years of novel writing is bookended by books with themes of domestic violence. In that time the conversation has made a welcome shift
Eli Goldstone I can’t think of many great books that aren’t funny