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Johny Pitts talks to debut novelist Tess Gunty about her novel The Rabbit Hutch which has just been shortlisted for Waterstones Debut Fiction Award. The Rabbit Hutch is a polyphonic novel that revolves around 18-year-old Blandine and the residents of a low-cost apartment block in the Rust Belt of the US. The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, all of them looking for ways to live in a dying city.

The poet and writer Jackie Kay talks to Johny about the writing of Jamaica Kincaid asher books are republished by Picador to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Among the freshly available titles are the writer's first novel, Annie John, and her travel memoir, Among Flowers.

And the author of The Return of Faraz Ali, Aamina Ahmad, explores her mother’s secret life with books from Urdu poetry to feminist book clubs.

Book List – Sunday 24 July and Thursday 28 July

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
NW by Zadie Smith
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Ulysses by James Joyce
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
The Autobiography of my Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas by Jamaica Kincaid
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad