Hints and tips:
...Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell, Tinder Press, RRP£20, 384 pages It’s summer, and a plague is sweeping the country....
...Lacey Apeirogon by Colum McCann The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell The Glass Hotel by Emily St John...
...Bennett’s arresting, humane novel is an indictment on race and class in America....
...Apart from Bennett, there are Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Maggie O’Farrell and Esther Freud on the home team, while visitors from overseas include Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips....
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