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The five best fiction books of 2022

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for his darkly comic Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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The best fiction of 2022: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds – an exquisite exploration of love and legacy

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds is a spellbinding, beautifully told blend of love story and magical realism ghost story.

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Black History Month: 7 books by emerging black authors to put on your reading list

Use October as an opportunity to get stuck into some of the best books of 2022.

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Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

Novelists including Johny Pitts, Monica Ali and Nina Stibbe – plus Observer critics – on their essential holiday books

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Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity

Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut

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‘The pendulum has swung’: Why we female Trinidadian writers are having our moment

Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean island

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When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut

This spirited Trinidadian love story about a gravedigger and a medium has echoes of Dickens

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When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a love letter to Trinidad

A young couple are confronted by life’s duties in a vivid debut about romance and loss in the Caribbean

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