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It has been a big couple of weeks for books news: the 2017 Baileys longlist has been announced, with Nigerian author Ayòbámi Adébáyò listed for her debut, Stay With Me. It is the story of a woman’s attempts to become pregnant and the subsequent, painful loss of her children, born with sickle cell disease. Adébáyò spoke to Claire about being driven by anger and the process of writing in English while including the rhythm and cadence of the Yoruba language in her dialogue.
It is also London book fair, the annual industry event that sees big book deals and new authors emerge, to be snapped up by eager publishers from all over the world. Claire spoke to the director of the event Jacks Thomas, Benedicte Page of the Bookseller, and Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Polish writing, about which books to look out for, how politics influences the fair, and why Poland’s authors are being celebrated this year.
Reading list
Stay With Me review, by Diana Evans
Baileys prize for women’s fiction longlist 2017 – in pictures
LBF 2017: Brexit is big – but it’s Poland’s year to shine
Photograph: KC Ogundele
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