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- A.S. Byatt
- Aatish Taseer
- Adam Levin
- Adam Mansbach
- Akira Yoshimura
- Alaa Al Aswany
- Alan Coren
- Alan Spence
- Alan Taylor
- Alasdair Gray
- Albert Sanchez Pinol
- Alberto Manguel
- Alessandro Baricco
- Alex Shearer
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Alexander McKay
- Alexander Trocchi
- Alfred Lansing and Margot Morrell
- Ali Smith
- Alison Jackson
- Allan Massie
- Amnesty International
- Amy Leach
- Andrew Davidson
- Andrew Greig
- Andrew Stott
- Andrew Wilson
- Angus Bell
- Anna Akhmatova and Roberta Reeder
- Anne Donovan
- Annette Hope
- Anthony Bourdain
- Antoni Libera
- Antonia Fraser
- Antonio Tabucchi
- April Bloomfield
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arto Paasilinna
- Athol Fugard
- Barry Gifford
- Ben Brooks
- Ben Fountain
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Beth Griffenhagen and Cynthia Vehslage Meyers
- Bill Naughton
- Blake Morrison
- Bono
- Brian Moore
- Bruno Arpaia
- Caradog Prichard
- Carlo Collodi
- Carol Birch
- Charles & Mary Lamb
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
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- Charles M. Schulz
- Charles Mingus
- Charles R. Larson
- Charles Shaar Murray
- Chris Killen
- Christian Bok
- Christopher Ricks
- Christopher Rush
- Claire Harman
- Clare Sambrook
- Claudia Hammond
- Clinton Heylin
- Colin Firth and Anthony Arnove
- Colin Meloy
- D.H. Lawrence
- Dalai Lama
- Dan Rhodes
- Dana Spiotta
- Daniel H. Pink
- Dante Alighieri
- Dave Simpson
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- David Eagleman
- David Grossman
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- David Maine
- David Margolick
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- David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
- David Shrigley
- David Simon
- David Simon and Edward Burns
- David Thomson
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- Deborah Kay Davies
- Dennis Cooper
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- Dorit Rabinyan
- Douglas Cowie
- Dubravka Ugresic
- Duncan Williamson
- E.M. Forster
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- Eric Linklater
- Evelyn Waugh
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Geoff Dyer
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- Giovanni Boccaccio
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- Graham McCann
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gyles Brandreth
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- Hardeep Singh Kohli
- Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson
- Harry Hill
- Helen Garner
- Helen Walsh
- Henry Donald
- Hilaire Belloc
- Howard Sounes
- Hugh Ambrose
- Hugo Rifkind
- Iceberg Slim
- Inga Clendinnen
- Ismail Kadare
- J.B.Priestley
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- J.M. Barrie
- James Barke
- James Brabazon
- James Hadley Chase
- James Hilton
- James Joyce
- James Maskalyk
- James Meek
- James Welch
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- Jane Rogers
- Jasper Gibson
- Jay Dobyns with Nils Johnson-Shelton
- Jay Parini
- Jeanette Winterson
- Jeet Thayil
- Jeff Connor
- Jenna Blum
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- Jennifer Clement
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- Jeremy Dyson
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- Jules Verne
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- Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding
- Kader Abdolah
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- Kazuo Ishiguro
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- Klas Ostergren
- Knut Hamsun
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- Lemn Sissay
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonardo Padura Fuentes
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Lewis Hyde
- Lily Jones
- Lorin Stein
- Louis de Bernieres
- Louise Welsh
- Luc Ferry
- M.G. Vassanji
- M.J. Hyland
- Machiavelli
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- Margaret Elphinstone
- Margaret Oliphant
- Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell
- Mari Strachan
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- Mark McNay
- Mark Sarvas
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- Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield
- Martin Strong
- Mary Contini
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Horlock
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- Mary Somerville
- Matt Bondurant
- Matt Haig
- Matthew White
- Meir Shalev
- Michael Byrne and Dorothy McMillan
- Michel Faber
- Michel Schneider
- Milan Kundera
- Milton Hatoum
- Miranda July
- Muriel Spark
- Nam Le
- Nan Shepherd
- Nancy Brysson Morrison
- Natsuo Kirino
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- Neil Munro
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- Nelson Algren
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- Nicholas Hogg
- Nick Cave
- Nick Rennison
- Nicolai Lilin
- Niven Govinden
- Noel Fielding
- Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Olivia Laing
- Olivia Manning
- Orhan Pamuk
- Oscar Wilde
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Pablo Tusset
- Patience Agbabi
- Patrick Hamilton
- Patrick Ness
- Paul Auster
- Paul Reekie,Laura Hird,James Meek,Gordon Legge,Alan Warner,Irvine Welsh
- Peter Ackroyd
- Peter Behrens
- Peter Chapman
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- Peter Guralnick
- Peter Hessler
- Peter Hill
- Peter Reese
- Philip Gourevitch
- Philip Pullman
- Pierre Merot
- Pierre Szalowski
- Piers Paul Read
- Rebecca Gowers
- Rebecca Miller
- Rebecca Solnit
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- Richard Holloway
- Richard Hughes
- Richard Wilson
- Richmal Crompton
- Ricky Gervais
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- Robert Graves
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- Roland Huntford
- Ron Rash
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- Rory Carroll
- Ross Leckie
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- Rupert Brooke
- Russell Myrie
- Russell Potter
- Ruth Ozeki
- Salley Vickers
- Sam Leith
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- Scarlett Thomas
- Scott Weiland
- Shakespeare
- Shirley Conran
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Simon Armitage
- Simon Gray
- Simon Tofield
- Sonia Faleiro
- Stanley Booth
- Stephen Gundle
- Steve Bloomfield
- Steven Hall
- Stewart Home
- Stewart Lee Allen
- Su Tong
- Sue Armstrong
- T.E. Lawrence
- Tahmima Anam
- Tao Lin
- Thomas Glavinic
- Thomas Hardy
- Tim Key
- Toby Clements
- Tom Gallagher
- Tom Wright
- Toni Davidson
- Trevor Byrne
- Vestal McIntyre
- Vice
- Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens
- Victor Pelevin
- Victoria Coren
- Virginia Woolf
- Voltaire
- Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
- Will Ferguson
- Will Self
- William Golding
- William McIlvanney
- William Thackeray
- Yann Martel
- Zeruya Shalev
Steven Hall
Tilda Swinton reads one of the most mesmerising passages in The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.
Raw Shark Tattoos
The Ludovican gets under your skin with these Raw Shark tattoos from fans of the book.
Fearful Symmetry
A short and very good essay on symmetry in The Raw Shark Texts, on Steven Hall's website.
A Squidoo essay on The Raw Shark Texts
'An unputdownable psychological thriller about loss and the nature of identity.'

12 ‘Granta’-Anointed Best Young British Novelists on Their Favorite Young British Writers
EMILY TEMPLE
Curious as to the reading lists of these future international literary stars, we reached out to ask them to tell us about their favorite writers
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists
PHILIP MAUGHAN
Penguin-style biographies for the twenty listed writers with essays, reviews and free fiction.
Steven Hall
ABOUT THE AUTHORSteven Hall was born in 1975. After completing a fine arts degree, he became one of the founding members of Manchester's Wet Nana and has produced a number of plays, music videos, conceptual art pieces and short stories. He lives in Hull.









