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Last year, at the showcase for a new season of books from independent publisher Daunt, there was a particular sense of electricity about one author. American writer Rita Bullwinkel didn’t even have to be in the room – her reading was recorded from her home in San Francisco – to create a buzz. When I read her debut novel Headshot earlier this year, the shimmering story of a boxing competition for teen girls, I understood the excitement. It’s one of the best new novels I’ve read this year – and now it’s on the Booker Prize longlist.
