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Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’

He has responded to accusations that he was an 'a**hole' to work with

Fiona Shaw, Cush Jumbo, Imelda Staunton and Miriam Margolyes to enact parts of novel’s concluding monologue in The Molly Films

This richly evocative tale – part of a project drawing on the work of long-forgotten contemporaries of Dostoevsky – bears repeated readings

The iconoclastic US author’s intellectually poised critique of minimalism boasts scintillating writing of breadth and power

Survivors’ stories provide gritty testament to the moral confusion of life in the aftermath of atrocity in the Pulitzer-nominated Native American’s eye-opening second novel

Other lives: Expert in critical criminology who advised the United Nations on organised crime and human trafficking

G. Adarsh Kumar, who is currently Director, SCMS Institute for Road Safety and Transportation (SiRST), was recipient of the Kerala Chief Minister’s first Transport Medal. He recently authored a book The Fact in the Fiction, narrating primary lessons on road safety with the help of stories.

The Palestinian author’s second novel in translation is an affecting portrait of one displaced family’s inescapable relationship with the past