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The Inheritance of literary success 6/10 When Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize, the head judge praised “the strength of the book’s humanity”, adding that her mother Anita “will be proud of her”. The fact that Anita Desai was also a Booker shortlisted author who never scooped the big prize, [...]

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Sea of words 8/10 While I would agree with some critics that this prize-winning novel does not have much of a story, I believe that rubbishing the book on this priniciple belies a very blinkered notion of what a novel should be. I am not familiar with Banville’s previous work but ‘The Sea’ reminds me [...]

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