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Kamila Shamsie (£ 8.99, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING)

A retelling of Sophocles’ play, Antigone – in Kamila Shamsie’s Man Booker-longlisted and Women’s Prize for Fiction-winning book, the fates of two families are devastatingly entwined. This contemporarily-set novel ultimately asks the question, what sacrifices are we prepared to make in the name of love?