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Nina de la Mer
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Gina McKinnon
Ilex
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Linn Ullman
Picador
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Suzanne Berne
Penguin
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Jay Mandal
Bewrite Books
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Lorrie Moore
Faber
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Charlotte Greig
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Ernest J. Gaines
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Kate Pullinger
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Scott Spencer
Harper Perennial
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Andrew Taylor
Penguin
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Jane Smiley
Harper Press
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Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury
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Yiyun Li
Harper Perennial
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Nevil Shute
House of Stratus Ltd
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Anthony Doerr
4th Estate
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Jane Feaver
Harvill
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Kathrine Kressman Taylor
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Wole Soyinka
Vintage
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Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury
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Douglas Coupland
Flamingo
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Tod Wodicka
Vintage
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Lisa Moore
Virago
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Hans Fallada
Penguin Classic
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Jules Hardy
Pocket Books
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Philip Roth
Vintage
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Oliver Sacks
Picador
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
Oxford Paperbacks
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Elizabeth Taylor
Virago
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Frank McCourt
Flamingo
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Indra Sinha
Simon and Schuster
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Meera Syal
Flamingo
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Kate Clanchy
Picador
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William Boyd
Penguin
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William Boyd
Penguin
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Julian Barnes
Vintage
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Alison Wong
Picador
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Jamie O' Neill
Scribner
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Anne Tyler
Vintage
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Agnes Owens
Bloomsbury
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Robert Lewis
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Yann Martel
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Kate Atkinson
Black Swan
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Jim Crace
Penguin
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Ann Patchett
Fourth Estate
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Chris Womersley
Quercus
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Hilary Mantel
Harper Perennial
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Louis de Bernières
4th Estate
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Sebastian Faulks
Vintage
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Caitlin Davies
Pocket Books
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Amanda Smyth
Serpents Tail
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Attica Locke
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Edward Hogan
Pocket Books
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Jose Saramago
Vintage
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Lian Hearn
Quercus
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Danny King
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Maile Meloy
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Anne Tyler
Vintage
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Graham Greene
Penguin
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Philippe Claudel
Quercus
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Colm Toibin
Penguin
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Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury
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Sonya Hartnett
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Jennifer Worth
4th Estate
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Sylvia Murphy
S A Greenland
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Louis de Bernières
Vintage
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M. J. Hyland
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Pawel Huelle
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Margaret Atwood
Virago
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Shani Mootoo
Bewrite Books
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Jonathan Trigell
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Roy Jacobsen
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Marilyn Heward Mills
Sphere
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David Mitchell
Sceptre
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Tim Winton
Penguin
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Rawi Hage
Hamish Hamilton
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Charles Frazier
Sceptre
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Albert Sanchez Pinol
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Helen Simpson
Jonathan Cape
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Tom Franklin
Macmillan
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Julia Crouch
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Peter Ackroyd
Minerva
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Haruki Murakami
Harvill
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Inga Clendinnen
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Michèle Roberts
Virago
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Richard Gwyn
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Helen Zahavi
Flamingo
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Naomi Alderman
Penguin
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Rebecca Wells
Pan
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David Guterson
Bloomsbury
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Jean Teule
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Lynne Truss
Profile Books
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Paul Stewart and Chr Riddell
Corgi Childrens
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Ray Robinson
Picador
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Oscar Hijuelos
Bloomsbury
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Matthew Kneale
Penguin
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Murray Bail
Harvill
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Carrie Tiffany
Pan
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Penguin
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Ray Bradbury
Voyager
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Penelope Lively
Penguin
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Rohinton Mistry
Faber & Faber
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Alison Pick
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Nancy Huston
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Gabriel Chevalier
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Lisa Moore
Chatto and Windus
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Alison MacLeod
Penguin
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Sarah Waters
Virago
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Anita Desai
Vintage
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David Nwokedi
Jonathan Cape
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Kathy Lette
Picador
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Ethan Canin
Bloomsbury
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Shalom Auslander
Picador
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Peter Ackroyd
Macmillan
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Louise Erdich
Harper Perennial
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Anne Michaels
Bloomsbury
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Marilynne Robinson
Virago
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Tracy Chevalier
Harper Collins
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Isabel Ashdown
Penguin
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Castle Freeman
Duckworth Overlook
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Ross Raisin
Penguin
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Laurie Graham
Harper Perennial
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Evelio Rosero
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Richard Flanagan
Picador
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Bernard MacLaverty
Vintage
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Lucy Wadham
Faber
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Dave Boling
Picador
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Roopa Farooki
Macmillan
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4th Estate
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Patricia Duncker
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Tiffany Murray
4th Estate
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Michael Frayn
Faber & Faber
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George Monbiot
Penguin
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Jon Kalman Steffansson
Quercus
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Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Jeremy Reed
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Marilynne Robinson
Virago
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Marilynne Robinson
Faber & Faber
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Helen Dunmore
Penguin
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Meg Rosoff
Puffin
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Stephen Amidon
Penguin
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Sebastian Faulks
Vintage
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Knut Hamsun
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Dodie Smith
Virago
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Martine McDonagh
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Milan Kundera
Faber & Faber
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Elizabeth Taylor
Virago
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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Hisham Matar
Penguin
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Per Petterson
Vintage
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Halldor Laxness
Harvill
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Andrew Miller
Sceptre
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Sue Eckstein
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Elizabeth Haynes
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Allegra Goodman
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Ed Siegle
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Joseph Connolly
Faber & Faber
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Toni Morrison
Vintage
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A.L. Barker
Vintage
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Gerard Donovan
Faber & Faber
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Candi Miller
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Frances Wheen
Fourth Estate
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James Kelman
Penguin
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Carol Shields
Fourth Estate
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Elizabeth Hay
Quercus
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Alain Fournier
Penguin Classic
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Jean Cocteau
Vintage
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Brett Easton Ellis
Picador
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Pat Barker
Penguin
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Marghanita Laski
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Anna Richardson
Picador
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Chiew-Siah Tei
Picador
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lyndall Gordon
Virago
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Julia Widdows
Transworld Publishers
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Alexander Ikonnikov
Serpents Tail
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A.L. Kennedy
Bloomsbury
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Aleksandar Hemon
Picador
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William Trevor
Penguin
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Hanif Kureshi
Faber & Faber
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Ray Kluun
Pan
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Heather O'Neill
Quercus
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Helen Simonson
Bloomsbury
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Beryl Bainbridge
Abacus
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Ferenc Karinthy
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Frances Kay
Picador
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Bloomsbury
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Chris Bohjalian
Vintage
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Rula Jebreal
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Peter Høeg
Harvill
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Lloyd Jones
John Murray
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Deirdre Madden
Faber & Faber
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Jean Teule
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Jane Smiley
Flamingo
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Paul Auster
Faber & Faber
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Susan Abulhawa
Bloomsbury
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Alan Warner
Vintage
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Oscar Hijuelos
Bloomsbury
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Susan Hill
Vintage
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Will Self
Penguin
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Sally Morgan
Virago
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Louise Welsh
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Richard Wright
Vintage
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Philip Roth
Vintage
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Joseph O'Neill
Harper Perennial
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William Gibson
Voyager
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber
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David Gaffney
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Les Murray
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Chris Paling
Vintage
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Elizabeth McCracken
Vintage
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Cormac McCarthy
Picador
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Guillermo Orsi
Quercus
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Anne Tyler
Chatto and Windus
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Zoe Heller
Penguin
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Gerard Woodward
Picador
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Eli Gottlieb
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Jane Gardam
Chatto and Windus
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Zadie Smith
Penguin
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Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape
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David Nicholls
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Susanna Moore
Penguin
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Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury
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Gilda O' Neill
Penguin
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Rosalind Coward
Faber & Faber
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Mark Piggott
Legend Press
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Per Petterson
Vintage
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Andrew Miller
Sceptre
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Lesley Glaister
Bloomsbury
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Patricia Ferguson
Solidus
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Marjane Satrapi
Jonathan Cape
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Alan Garganus
Faber & Faber
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Alastair Gray
Penguin
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Vanora Bennett
Harper Collins
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Andre Brink
Vintage
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Mary Webb
Virago
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Jane Smiley
Faber & Faber
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Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber
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Valerie Martin
Abacus
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harper Perennial
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Jim Crace
Penguin
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Barbara Pym
Flamingo
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Seamus Deane
Vintage
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Azar Nafisi
Harper Collins
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Jackie Kay
Picador
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Pat Barker
Penguin
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Anne Peile
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William Boyd
Bloomsbury
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Rose Tremain
Sceptre
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Simon Lelic
Picador
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Jeremy Page
Penguin
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Candi Miller
Legend Press
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Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape
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Ellen Feldman
Picador
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Amitav Ghosh
John Murray
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Laila Lalami
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John O'Donoghue
John Murray
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Peter Thompson
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Fred Vargas
Harvill
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Edward Docx
Picador
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Ron Rash
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Rupert Smith
Serpents Tail
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Lily Dunn
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Kwame Dawes
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Bich Minh Nguyen
Penguin
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Jim Crace
Picador
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Chris Bohjalian
Pocket Books
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Neil Bartlett
Serpents Tail
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Andrea Levy
Review
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Alan Bennett
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Conrad Jones
AuthorHouse
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Diran Adebayo
Abacus
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Dorothy Whipple
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Peter Manseau
Simon and Schuster
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Deborah Lawrenson
Arrow Books
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Pat Conway
Corvus
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Anna Funder
Granta Books
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Niccolo Ammaniti
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Carolyn Wall
Quercus
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Benito Perez Galdos
Everyman
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John McGahern
Faber & Faber
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Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Edith Wharton
Penguin Classic
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Tony Saint
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Maria Angels Anglada
Corsair
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Zoe Heller
Fig Tree
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Fatou Diome
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Rona Jaffe
Penguin Classic
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Helen Dunmore
Fig Tree
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Anita Amirrezvani
Review
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Marjolijn Februari
Quercus
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Will Self
Penguin
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Elle Newmark
Flamingo
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Markus Zusak
Black Swan
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Claudie Gallay
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Junot Diaz
Faber
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Jacob Polley
Picador
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John Fante
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Milton Hartoum
Bloomsbury
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Louise Welsh
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Roy Jacobsen
John Murray
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Sarah Hall
Faber
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A S Byatt
Vintage
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Linda Grant
Virago
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Sue Eckstein
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Truman Capote
Penguin
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Olga Grushin
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Suzannah Dunn
Harper Press
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Jonathan Franzen
4th Estate
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Niccolo Ammaniti
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Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books
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Louise Welsh
Harvill
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Kalinda Ashton
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Mari Strachan
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Liam Browne
Bloomsbury
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Claire Messud
Picador
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Michael Ondaatje
Picador
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Helen Slavin
Pocket Books
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Ben Okri
Vintage
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Doris Lessing
Flamingo
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Suzanne Berne
Penguin
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Tan Twan Eng
Myrmidon Books Ltd
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Colin Channer
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Naomi Wood
Picador
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Marion Husband
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Sue Miller
Perennial
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Bethan Roberts
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Noam Shpancer
Abacus
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Shirley Hazzard
Virago
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Bloomsbury
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Margaret Atwood
Vintage
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Edmund de Waal
Vintage
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Colin Harrison
Bloomsbury
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Kathryn Stockett
Penguin
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Nicole Krauss
Penguin
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André Dubus
Vintage
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Julia Leigh
Faber & Faber
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Scott Phillips
Picador
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Tarjei Vesaas
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Kate Grenville
Picador
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Kiran Desai
Penguin
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Jed Rubenfeld
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Julie Orringer
Penguin
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Karen Joy Fowler
Penguin
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Elly Griffiths
Quercus
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Amy Tan
Vintage
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Buchi Emecheta
Heinemann
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Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury
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Kate Grenville
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Graham Swift
Penguin
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Alan Hollinghurst
Picador
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A S Byatt
Vintage
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Sarah Waters
Virago
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Marge Piercy
Penguin
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Eva Rice
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Susan Fromberg Schaffer
Penguin
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Jane Gardam
Chatto and Windus
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Christina Stead
Picador
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Ahdaf Soueif
Bloomsbury
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Roberto Callasso
Vintage
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Penguin
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Emma Darwin
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Carson McCullers
Mariner Books
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Annie Freud
Picador
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Bi Feiyu
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Sarah Waters
Virago
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Richard Francis
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Margaret Atwood
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James Meek
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HRF Keating
Penguin
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Ann Weisgarber
Pan
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Jim Crace
Picador
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Philip Roth
Jonathan Cape
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Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber
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Bethan Roberts
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Justin Cartwright
Bloomsbury
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Suzannah Dunn
Perennial
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Graham Greene
Vintage
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F M Mayor
Virago
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Mohsin Hamid
Penguin
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Magnus Mills
Flamingo
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Cormac McCarthy
Picador
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Margaret Atwood
Virago
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Anne Rouse
Bloodaxe
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John Banville
Picador
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Margaret Drabble
Penguin
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Donna Tartt
Penguin
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Kate Grenville
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Sebastian Barry
Faber & Faber
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Dalia Sofer
Picador
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E Annie Proulx
Fourth Estate
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J G Farrell
Phoenix
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Christos Tsiolkas
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William Nicholson
Doubleday
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Georgina Harding
Bloomsbury
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Helen Garner
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Tom Connolly
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Andrew Sean Greer
Faber
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William Trevor
Penguin
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Rabih Alameddine
Picador
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Saira Shah
Penguin
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Omair Ahmad
Penguin
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Alan Hollinghurst
Picador
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Julia Darling
Penguin
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Tibor Fischer
Vintage
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David Mitchell
Sceptre
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Günter Grass
Minerva
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Tove Jansson
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Maggie O'Farrell
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Alice Munro
Vintage
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Jeremy Chambers
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A S Byatt
Vintage
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Jeremy Page
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Anthony Trollope
Penguin Classic
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Iain Banks
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Saqi
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Simon and Schuster
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Anchor
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Jonathan Cape
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Faber & Faber
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Granta
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Penguin
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Vintage
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Penguin
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Harper Perennial
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Virago
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Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton
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Alexander Baron
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James Curtis
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Heinemann
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A.M. Homes
Granta
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Harvill
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Paul Harding
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Christie Watson
Quercus
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Elmore Leonard
Penguin
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Tom McNeal
Abacus
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Austin M. Wright
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Alice Munro
Chatto and Windus
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Macmillan
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Tove Jansson
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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J G Farrell
Jonathan Cape
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Faber & Faber
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Paul Auster
Faber & Faber
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Jackie Kay
Picador
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Bloomsbury
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Clio Gray
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Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury
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Faber & Faber
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Penguin
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Jean Rhys
Penguin Classic
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Penguin
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Jonathan Coe
Penguin
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Sceptre
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Penguin
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Granta
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Picador
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Picador
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Picador
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Faber
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Sceptre
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Welbeck Press
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4th Estate
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