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From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break
Guy Gunaratne’s Booker-longlisted 2018 debut, In Our Mad and Furious City, portrayed Londoners from several diaspora communities against the backdrop of a terrorist atrocity. Gunaratne’s new novel, Mister Mister, is narrated by Yahya, a British-Iraqi terror suspect
The winner will receive £1,000, and have their story featured on the Guardian website
The second outing from the Booker-longlisted author traces the formation of a restless, obsessive British jihadist. Review by Georgia Heneage
From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious