Rapture Brand / Ottolenghi Chair of the 2024 Booker

Chair of the 2024 Booker Prize judges

award-winning Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart

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Her engagement with different cultures enables her to create and exhibit artworks

Rapture Brand / Ottolenghi Chair of the 2024 BookerThe motherless child of an English priest living in ninth century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman. So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a