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Best Book of 1926: Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Sun Yisheng
His is a force more penetrative than all the bogus machismo of Hemingway.
Best Book of 2010: Mr Chartwell, by Rebecca Hunt
Emma Jane Unsworth
‘Hunt writes with brio, the visceral often blooming into the mystical.’
First Sentence: Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora
‘Immigration has become a physical thing, like a tumor inside us, between us.’
Witchcraft Today
Diane Williams
‘Two women appeared embracing two of a kind – that is each woman held onto a globular lamp base that had luster.’
The Beauty and the Bat
Diane Williams
‘I knew who she was well enough, by then – a competent woman in earnest who didn’t like me.’
Winnie and the Innocence of the World
Joost Zwagerman
‘This is how I became Winnie’s clandestine, outcast and utterly powerless guardian angel.’