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Can literature solve poverty?
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Against oblivion
Against oblivion
Forty Under Forty
Forty Under Forty
Why race matters
Why race matters
The Art of Non-Fiction
The Art of Non-Fiction
Picasso’s Faces
Picasso’s Faces
The Good Immigrant
The Good Immigrant
On Memory
On Memory
Sleep talking
Sleep talking
Writing in the rain
Writing in the rain

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Michèle Roberts

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Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly-acclaimed Ignorance, …


Michèle Roberts recommends Sailing to Byzantium, Swallowing Mercury, Swimming Home, Black Mamba Boy, Astragal.

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