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Ros Barber is a poet, novelist, and scholar. Her critically acclaimed verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012), a fictional reimagining of the life of Christopher Marlowe longlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize, was the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and joint winner of the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her second no…

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