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...When Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, judges hailed him as “the father of modern African literature”. blackwell.co.uk Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories...
...Madame Zero, by Sarah Hall, Faber, RRP£12.99/Custom House, RRP$23.99, 192 pages Melissa Harrison is author of ‘At Hawthorn Time’ (Bloomsbury) Photograph: Alamy...
...Through the Dublin literary scene, the two meet a charismatic married couple: writer Melissa and her handsome, subdued husband Nick, an actor who does good work in second-rate plays and TV....
...Cory Booker, a Democrat senator from New Jersey, spoke at both the rallies in New York and Washington Dulles airport, talking about “a long fight” ahead....
...Patrick DeWitt’s previous novel, The Sisters Brothers, was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2011....
...At Hawthorn Time, by Melissa Harrison, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 Set in a present-day English village, Harrison’s second novel is a striking hybrid, combining clear-eyed nature writing with an absorbing tale...
...Melissa Harrison Author of At Hawthorn Time , shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Sometimes a writer at the peak of their powers expands what literature is able to achieve, and this was the case...
...After all, the 2013 Man Booker prize was awarded to Eleanor Catton for The Luminaries, an 800-plus-page tour de force of fiendish internal complexity and arcane structure....
...The modern master of small-town Irish gothic, Patrick McCabe is renowned for his unhinged first-person narrators – most notably teen killer Francie Brady in the Man Booker shortlisted The Butcher Boy (1992...
...“I feel so normal here,” said Melissa McLachlan, an Australian IT consultant. “In Sydney I’m the only person obsessed with the South Pole.” But it also leads on to other quests....
...Yesterday’s Weather By Anne Enright Vintage £7.99, 308 pages FT Bookshop price: £6.39 Despite critical acclaim, Dubliner Anne Enright had a limited profile until she won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering...
...Since then she has produced nine novels, including 1996’s Booker-shortlisted The Orchard on Fire and 2003’s acclaimed Heligoland, plus five short story collections....
...The Lieutenant By Kate Grenville Canongate £12.99, 280 pages Set 25 years before her Man Booker shortlisted The Secret River, Grenville’s latest novel concerns a lieutenant bound for Australia on a ship...
...For two decades, she wrote fiction in her spare time – until she shot to fame in 2003 when her first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, made the Man Booker prize shortlist....
...The first, The Death of Vishnu (2001), was long-listed for the Booker Prize....
...These include the 1979 Booker prize shortlisted Praxis – about a woman looking back on a life beset by adultery, rape, incest and infanticide – and the wickedly fantastical 1983 satire of romantic fiction...
...Okri won the Booker prize in 1991 with The Famished Road, his picaresque epic about a Nigerian spirit child....
...The Underground Man By Mick Jackson Faber £7.99, 264 pages FT bookshop price: £6.39 This Booker-shortlisted novel takes as its point of departure the story of the eccentric fifth Duke of Portland, William...
...Goodbye Lucille by Segun Afolabi Jonathan Cape ₤11.99, 312 pages FT bookshopprice: ₤9.59 In 2005 Nigeria-born Segun Afolabi won the Caine prize - the African equivalent of the Booker - for his short story...
...He won the Caine Prize (the African equivalent of the Booker) in 2001 for Prison Stories - interwoven tales of a young journalist working in the darkest days of the Abacha years....
...AUSTRALIA Sorry By Gail Jones Harvill Secker £12.99, 218 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The sixth novel from Booker Prize long-listed author Jones is an elegantly written lament for white Australia...
...Yet, after 11 short-story collections and one - Booker-nominated - novel (The Beggar Maid, 1980), her astounding critical acclaim has not been followed with popular success outside her native Canada....
...LUDMILA’S BROKEN ENGLISH by DBC Pierre Faber & Faber £12.99, 318 pages In 2003, a 42-year-old former con-man and drug addict, DBC Pierre, shocked the literary world by winning the Man Booker Prize for his...
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