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Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

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Kate Mosse discusses the new women’s prize for non-fiction and her latest novel The Ghost Ship with Helen Brown

Ruth Ivo

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Cathy Newman

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Bee Wilson

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