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MEET THE NEW FACES OF FICTION FOR 2016: From The Guardian Six of our eight debut novelists, left to right: Harry Parker, Fiona Barton,Nadim Safdar, Janet Ellis, Lisa Owens and Joanna Cannon. Composite: Karen Robinson for the Observer Harry Parker: ‘I wanted to be seen as someone who could write, not a legless bloke who wrote a book’ 39 | P a g e