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Yaa Gyasi
YAA GYASI was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.

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Issue No. 16

Walking Backwards

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Issue No. 16

‘Moderne, c’est déjà vieux.’ La Féline   I.   I pretended to remember and I smiled: it was time...

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December 2011

Travel

Paul Kavanagh

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December 2011

Taxi The taxi stopped and Henry climbed into the taxi. The taxi driver went around the block three times...

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Issue No. 10

Patterns

Christian Newby

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