LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 11:55 GMT, 10 January 2020 YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, racial tensions — already … Read more
Before graduating from the UEA’s prestigious creative writing programme, Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in India
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OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT by Petina Gappah (Faber £16.99, 320pp) Set after the death of Victorian explorer David Livingstone, Petina Gappah’s novel is part of a trend for putting history’s supposed bit-part players centre-stage. Incredibly, Livingstone’s African retinue trekked across the continent so that his body could be buried in Britain. Gappah fictionalises two … Read more