Guardian review
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Beginning with an unthinkable act of family violence, this moving and profound debut investigates the limits of memory and imagination
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Calle has long found beauty in the bizarre – her appearance on the Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist is overdue
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The novelist, recently diagnosed with cancer, considers the question of legacy and how a wander through a graveyard inspired her latest novel Birdcage Walk
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The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on writing by hand, thinking aloud and forming a work out of scenes
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Gormley’s life-sized figures have kept lookout from waterside sites from Suffolk to the Bristol Channel – their transient quality is part of their timeless appeal
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This late-life debut charts the passions of a curmudgeonly bibliophile as he reconnects with his football fan grandson
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This true crime story about Peter Manuel, ‘the Beast of Birkenshaw’, alternates between a bizarre pub crawl with a relative of the victims and his trial for murder in 1958
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: a personal survey of class in Britain that should be essential reading in the Brexit era
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Susan Hill on starting her career during her O-levels, Twitter and completing her 59th book
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AL Kennedy celebrates a craftsman who viewed his work as a lifelong apprenticeship
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Protesting chickens, a mischievous bear, hunt the ballerinas and a Swedish horror story
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