From ghostly love stories to political satires and southern gothic thrillers, these are the best fiction books according to our academics.
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel, When We Were Birds, is a lyrical love story with its roots firmly in the narrative tradition of anglophone Caribbean writing.
Glory is a story about Zimbabwe’s violent past told through animals.
Our tales of the natural world are disappearing and we shouldn’t let them.
Following the life of young Joseph Coppock, Treacle Walker is about making sense of the world around us.
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year.
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Media Foundation and Creative Writing, University of East London
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PhD in Literature and Languages, University of Leicester
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Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Department of English, University of Bristol
