Australian Richard Flanagan triumphed with The Road to the Deep North, a "magnificent novel of love and war" at the Man Booker prize.
<b>Justine Jordan</b> reviews Julian Barnes’s novella that has been shortlisted for the Booker prize.
China Miéville, the author of <i>Embassytown</i>,
lets <b>Justine Jordan</b> explore his world, where
the adult still feeds on childhood dreams