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In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, an inventive mining of the darker side of folk and fairy tales, was hailed in 2018 as one of 15 books by women ‘shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.’ Her memoir, In the Dream House, offers Read More

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Washington Black

The story of George Washington Black is told in the first person by Esi Edugyan’s protagonist of the same name in her Man Booker shortlisted novel. Starting as an eleven-year-old field slave in Faith Plantation in Barbados in 1830,  the conditions of his slave life in the harsh setting of the sugar plantation  is  perhaps Read More

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The Essex Serpent (Longlisted, 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize)

A sleepy Essex village is roused to a simmering hysteria as rumours that a monstrous 17th century winged sea serpent has returned, causing an oppressive pall of paranoia to descend on those who live by the banks of the Blackwater. The local vicar, educated and thoroughly modern, battles the rising superstitions of the villagers, a Read More

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The Natashas

Born in Ukraine in 1984, Yelena Moskovich moved to the US with her family at the age of seven, and later trained as a playwright in Boston. She settled in Paris, studying physical theatre at the Lecoq School, and completing a Masters in Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics. The Natashas, her first novel, is as conceptually Read More

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