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In the third of our interviews with shortlisted authors we talk to Steve Toltz
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Interview: Nicholas Wroe talks to the Australian novelist about returning to his most celebrated subject
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Essay: Jeanette Winterson remembers how TS Eliot helped her through her troubled teenage years
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Review: Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll The surprisingly elusive Seamus Heaney tells of his life as a poet, says Sean O'Hagan
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Review: Quantum by Manjit Kumar
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First world war: Continuing our series marking the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day, poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Osbert Sitwell and others
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