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...His Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv, longlisted for the International Booker Prize in Reuben Woolley’s new translation, first appeared in Ukraine (in Russian) in 2012....
...Bernadine Evaristo claims to have used positive affirmations and creative visualisation to win the Booker Prize, despite then being “almost invisible” in the literary world....
...Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar (Hamish Hamilton £14.99), set in present-day India, contrasts the memories of Tara and Antara — mother and daughter, resentful of one another — as Tara’s mind is ravaged by dementia...
...In Reset (House of Anansi, January) Ronald Deibert sketches out a plan to reclaim the internet for civil society, while Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank make the case for public internet technology...
...Whitehead was one of the notable omissions from this year’s Booker Prize longlist but the Irish writer Kevin Barry made the cut, to the delight of his devoted readership....
...How will this year’s Booker panel cope? Perhaps they’ll give the prize to all of them. Dominican writer Rita Indiana made a splash in 2018 with the unclassifiable Tentacle....
...— Valp Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton, Bloomsbury, £12.99 A great story about friendship and money in Manhattan....
...A haunting novel by the Albanian winner of the inaugural International Man Booker Prize....
...When Salman Rushdie won the Booker prize for Midnight’s Children (1981) – which went on to win the “Booker of Bookers” in 1993 for the best novel published in Britain of the past 25 years – he pushed the...
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