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The Welsh novelist’s third novel, set on a Scottish island during the Highland Clearances, has won £10,000 for writing that ‘best evokes the spirit of a place’

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An ambitious young writer tells a white lie to land a scoop in this dazzling debut interrogating the ethics of writers

It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would…