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‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple

Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history The literary power couple is a historically seductive concept.

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