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Eleanor CattonAuthor of Birnam Wood (Granta) and the Booker prize-winning The Luminaries (Granta). Named on Granta’s 2023 Best of Young British Novelists listI love stories about couples on the run – nearly always an improvement on the classic “man on the run” genre – and James M Cain’s swaggering, sweltering Serenade (Orion) builds to an unforgettable finale; I couldn’t put it down. Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (HarperCollins) was a recent discovery: a former criminal, now in the witness protection programme, sees a…