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at abuse, to a light-hht-hearted but clear-eyed examination of the travails of motherhood. If anything, the shortlist shows how ecl novel-readers are.


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often tackle tricky subjects (like, sa , e C J Sansom’s Tomblan


Novels you won’t want to put down


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brings with customary page-turning pary page-turning p Atkinson plumbs m latest, Transcri tion in which a y during the Sec British fascists.


fascists. Northern Irish a er is n ern Irish autho


Milkman—published by Faber ar,, as was c te ory Rooney’s Normal People (see pages 04–07)—t the Man Booker Prize. The she subject matter is close-knit town at the h woman must keep the un of a senior paramilitary fi Milkman—secret. But readers droves to Burns’ raw writing.


—known as the s responded in


e—k ed in cond Why Mummy Swears is the second


novel Gill Sims has written based on her hit parenting blog. Her books examine family life with laugh-out-loud moments, telling universal truths about what mums the world over have to put up with.


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There are welcome returns to series, starting with Jojo Moyes’ Still Me, the third of her books f


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