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Andrea Levy, chronicler of the Windrush generation, dies aged 62

Feb 15 2019: The writer Andrea Levy, who explored the experience of Jamaican British people in a series of novels over 20 years has died, aged 62, from cancer.

After starting to write as a hobby in her early 30s, Levy published three novels in the 1990s that brought her positive ...

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Paperback pioneer Betty Ballantine dead at 99

Feb 14 2019: Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such blockbusters as "The Hobbit" and "Fahrenheit 451," has died aged 99.

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Rosamunde Pilcher has died aged 94

Feb 07 2019: In 1988 the 14th novel by a little-known 63-year-old British author was published in New York. The Shell Seekers, the 500-page story of a woman, Penelope Keeling, looking back on her life and loves during the second world war, took the US by storm.

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A suspense novelist’s trail of deceptions

Feb 04 2019: Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.

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JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms

Feb 01 2019: JD Salinger’s son has confirmed for the first time that the late author of The Catcher in the Rye wrote a significant amount of work that has never been seen, and that he and his father’s widow are "going as fast as we freaking can" to get it ready for publication.

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Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes

Jan 31 2019: One of the biggest stars to come out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week wasn’t a CEO or a head of state or a venture capitalist. It was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch journalist and historian, who used his speaking time at the conference to lambaste ...

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Detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize

Jan 31 2019: The winner of Australia’s richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice.

Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the Aus$25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier’s literary awards and the Aus$100,000 Victorian prize ...

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"The Cut Out Girl" wins Costa Book of the Year Award

Jan 30 2019: The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es has won the overall Costa Book Award, with the judges declaring it, "the hidden gem of the year."

This biography tells the true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an ...

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