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Jonathan Lee


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Jonathan Lee's first novel, Who is Mr Satoshi?, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for an MJA Open Book Award in 2011. His second novel, Joy, published in 2013, was shortlisted for the Encore Award. The BBC's Culture Show programme recently featured him as being one of Britain's best new novelists. He lives in New York.
 


Genres: Historical
 
Novels
   Who Is Mr Satoshi (2010)
   Joy (2012)
   High Dive (2015)
   The Great Mistake (2021)
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The House of Doors (2023)
Tan Twan Eng
"An amazingly transporting novel about love, desire and duty. The House of Doors does what the very best stories do - it draws us intomany fascinating worlds at once: the British Empire's incursions into South-East Asia; the secret life of one of England's finest writers; a forgotten murder trial playing out in the Kuala Lumpur courts a century ago. Weaving all this together with great skill and power, bringing the reader a surfeit of pleasure, Tan Twan Eng also teaches us a crucial lesson: never trust a writer."
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (2023)
Jai Chakrabarti
"With a poet's sense of compression and a wonderful feel for the catastrophic gaps that can open up between countries, people, and behaviors, Jai Chakrabarthi's A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is essential reading for its title story alone. It is a moving, immersive, timely collection about what we hear and don't hear when we try to talk to one another."
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An Honest Living (2022)
Dwyer Murphy
"An Honest Living is a superb debut novel by a supremely gifted writer. It's as if Roberto Bolano and Lawrence Osborne got together to reimagine Chinatown. I was as gripped by the mystery at the heart of this book as I was by Dwyer Murphy's perfect prose."

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