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How to pronounce Andrea Levy: lee-vee
Andrea Levy discusses her novel The Long Song, set in the mid 19th century, during and after the abolition of slavery.
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Monica Ali is the daughter of English and Bangladeshi parents.
She came to England at the age of three, and her first home was Bolton in Greater Manchester. Ali later studied at Oxford University.
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Jesse Ball was born in New York in 1978. The author of fourteen books, most recently, the novel How To Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a ... (more)
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