In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]
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In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]
Read moreIan Rankin is author of 21 Inspector Rebus novels along with 20 others. He’s also written plays, graphic novels, short[…]
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Read moreAnnie Proulx (pronounced “proo”) was born in 1935, but her first novel wasn’t published until 1992. That novel, Postcards, won[…]
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