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Slime
Susanne Wedlich
Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu
‘We are all creatures of slime, but some of us are more creative than others’. An excerpt from Slime by Susanne Wedlich, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu.
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A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires.
As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others.
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Gospel
Carys Davies
‘I would explain to you then, if I could, the theory that in the case of hairline shape, there are two possible variants or alleles: straight, or widow’s peak.’
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
We knew Trump’s range: government by gesture; obfuscation and lying; self-praise; stoking fear and issuing threats.
Ceremony of Innocence
Madeleine Bunting
A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.
The Great Homecoming
Anna Kim
Read an excerpt from The Great Homecoming by Anna Kim, a novel of love and loss in the wake of the Korean war.
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The Language of Thieves Longlisted for Wingate Literary Prize
The Language of Thieves by Martin Puchner has been longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize - the UK's major award for books of Jewish interest.
The Manningtree Witches Shortlisted for WGGB Best First Novel Award
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore is shortlisted for the Writer's Guild of Great Britain Best First Novel Award.
Weather Shortlisted for prizes in Germany and France
Weather by Jenny Offill has been shortlisted for Le Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Internationaler Literaturpreis.
