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2. Eponymous lead character of Candice Carty-Williams’s debut novel.
5. Novel beginning with 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
6. According to Ocean Vuong, what ‘G’ are we briefly on earth?
7. Religion of the Westover family in Tara Westover’s biography ‘Educated’.
9. Wife of ‘Tom’ in Kaufman’s ‘All My Friends are Superheroes’.
11. City in novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Oyinkan Braithwaite.
13. The fear of running out of something to read.
14. Country in which both authors of 2. were born
16. In Orwell’s ‘1984’, the psychological principle that allows an individual to believe contradictory ideas at the same time.
17. Eponymous drink of Kawaguchi Toshikazu’s café-based tale, and a favourite of Lucy Stephenson.

1. Newspaper in which Zadie Smith’s ‘Embassy of Cambodia’ was first published (3,3,6)
3. ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ is a collection of what by Greta Thunberg?
4. The disgraced subject of Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott’s ‘Swan Song’ (6,6).testaments Follow up novel to 4.
8. Best selling crime writer and author of The Leopard, The Son and The Thirst.
10. Home county of ‘Normal People’ Connell and Marianne.
12. Name of the fictional republic in Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'.
15. Flavour of ‘Bertie Bott’s beans’ in the Harry Potter series.