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A fiercely intelligent and moving second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Wilderness.
Fred D'Aguiar is a poet and novelist. Born in 1960, he was raised in Guyana and London. His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the 1994 Whitbread First Novel Award.
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specialising in Japanese culture and the only Westerner to have become a geisha. She is the author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and consulted on Steven Spielberg's film ...
Gregor Dallas was born in London, went to university in America (Berkeley and Rutgers). He enjoys writing about both the famous and the unknown, and likes to put historical events in their physical place ...
Born in Portugal, Antonio Damasio became Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute ...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; and Behind the Mountains, a young adult novel. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the ...
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shropshire, England. He was educated at Edinburgh University and Christ's College, Cambridge. Between 1831 and 1836 he travelled in South America aboard ...