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Louise Glück: Marigold and Rose

Hiroko Oyamada: Weasels in the Attic

Luc Bovens: Coping

Meghan O'Gieblyn: God Human Animal Machine

Jean-Luc Champerret: The Lascaux Notebooks

Hilary Mantel: Giving Up the Ghost

Jean Hanff Korelitz: The Plot

Andrew Hui: A Theory of the Aphorism

Jesse Ball: Autoportrait

Elisa Gabbert: Normal Distance

Alejandro Zambra: Bonsai

Chris Head: A Director's Guide to the Art of Stand-Up

Joanna Bourke: What It Means To Be Human

Maggie O'Farrell: I Am, I Am, I Am

Simon Armitage: Walking Home

Celia Paul: Letters to Gwen John

Jordan Castro: The Novelist

John Koethe: Walking Backwards

John Berger: Cataract

David Shields: Reality Hunger