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Kate Clanchy 
For Struan Robertson, a 17-year-old genius from Scotland, London is more exotic than Paris or Thailand, a place from which no one returns....
Cath Kidston 
Despite the fact that there are stores with her name above the door across the globe, Cath Kidston’s preoccupations have changed little...
Melvin Burgess 
The recession has lasted decades. There is mass unemployment and mass poverty. You are a teenager with no future ahead of you and someone offers...
Lauren Beukes 
What’s scarier than a psychopathic serial killer that can travel through time toying with victims at various points in their life? Not...
Benjamin Percy 
Flight 373 from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, begins ordinarily enough for high school student Patrick Gamble. Until the werewolf terrorist...
Ruth Ozeki 
A barnacled plastic freezer bag washes ashore on a remote island off the Canadian west coast and is found by a writer named Ruth. Inside is a...
Taiye Selasi 
Of all the début authors in 2013, Taiye Selasi will assuredly be the only one who can claim to have been badgered and cajoled into her...
Mary Beard 
As Mary Beard, Cambridge University’s professor of classics picks up the phone; I hear the chime of her computer. She has just filed the...
Gavin Extence 
When 17-year-old Alex Woods is stopped at Dover Customs with four ounces of cannabis, he is struggling to maintain consciousness, visibly...
Jennie Rooney 
Think of your deepest, darkest secret, one that you could never tell those closest to you—your family, your friends—because it would...
Nadeem Aslam 
It’s October 2001, a month after 9/11, and Western armies have invaded Afghanistan. Brothers Jeo and Mikal make the decision to leave...
Maggie Shipstead 
Weddings and family drama often go hand in hand and in Seating Arrangements (Blue Door, April), the van Meter clan are on fine...
William Dalrymple 
William Dalrymple is recalling his research for Return of a King (Bloomsbury, February): “The greatest pleasure for a traveller...


