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The lists of “100 Authors to Read Before Graduation” and the “50 Classics All School Learners Should Read” I came across recently compel me to reply to those who compile them. There is something faintly absurd about a list called “The 100 Greatest Authors of All Time” that contains 20 or 30 writers from Britain…
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David Diop has won the prestigious International Booker Prize for translated fiction with his novel At Night All Blood Is Black about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I. The Paris-born writer is the first French winner of the prize, given for a book translated into English, and shares the award with…
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Revenge, redemption and romance, this magical tale has it all As with all good fairy tales, The Vine Witch starts with a curse, with Elena Boureanu, a toad wallowing in a murky pond. And that’s just the beginning. Luanne G Smith’s book opens up the darkest aspects of humans, with Elena plotting murderous revenge on…
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