Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a USD 50,000 honour for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
British writers are leaders in crime fiction, writes Aditi Phadnis
The Mirror and the Light is the triumphant capstone to Mantel's trilogy on Thomas Cromwell
There has been only exception to this urge to write and write and write: J D Salinger. He wrote just one highly successful novel, The Catcher in the Rye
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The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language 'Novels That Shaped Our World'
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