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Venetian Vespers by John Banville (read for the Walter Scott Prize for Fiction)
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears


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