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Tag Archives | International IMPAC Dublin Awards

Andrew Miller wins Costa Book Award for Pure

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Andrew Miller, previous winner of the Impac Dublin prize and the James Tait Black award, has just scooped the Costa Book Award for Pure, set in pre-Revolutionary Paris. The judges praised Pure for being ‘a rich and brilliant historical novel of death and superstition. It is a morality tale which engrosses with its vivid evocation of […]

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An interview with Annica Foxcroft

Annica Foxcroft was born in colonial Durban, lived for a few years in the Transvaal countryside, and since then has lived and worked in the melting pot of Johannesburg. Along the way she has seen South Africa in various guises.  She is the author of the best-selling books ‘There Are Ants in My Sugar‘ and […]

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