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Daisy Johnson–SISTERS
Note: In 2018, when Daisy Johnson was SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize for Everything Under, her first novel, she became, at age twenty-eight, the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for this...
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Alan Parks–BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER
“McCoy looked at his watch. Quarter past eight. The call had come in just before six last night, so fifteen hours or so she had been missing. The time for her to have got lost or stayed at a pal’s...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz–THE PLOT
“To Jake, the word that comprised the relationship between a writer and their spark was ‘responsibility.” Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and...
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Alan Parks–THE APRIL DEAD
“They were standing in the middle of West Princes Street looking up at the blown-out windows and scorched sandstone of what had been the flat at number 43. The flats around had suffered too: cracked...
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William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin–THE DARK REMAINS
“Sitting at a desk sucks all the oxygen out of you. That’s maybe somebody’s idea of policing, but not mine. I’m good at this city, though. I would definitely make that claim. It’s because I keep...
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John Banville–APRIL IN SPAIN
Note: John Banville has been WINNER of The James Tait Black Memorial Prize, WINNER of The Booker Prize, WINNER of The Franz Kafka Prize, WINNER of The Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and...
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Abir Mukherjee–THE SHADOWS OF MEN
“Men, I believe, are defined by the shadows they cast. Most, despite force of numbers and efforts, leave little trace. Like ants toiling under the noonday sun, their shadows are picayune and...
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Alan Parks–MAY GOD FORGIVE
“Glasgow was changing. All the old boys were scrambling about, desperate to get legit. One minute you’re slicing someone’s nose off with an open razor, next minute your’e in the Knights of St....
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Kwon Yeo-sun–LEMON
“This life is full of misery, as the lyrics say. Then I start wondering if this miserable life has any meaning. I don’t mean life in an abstract or general sense, but the life of an actual person....
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Daniel Silva–PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
“No one really knows whether all the beautiful works of art hanging in the world’s great museums are genuine or fakes. Least of all the learned curators and conservators employed by institutions...
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