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Award-winning writer Lionel Shriver talks about her new novel, The New Republic. It follows Edgar Kellog, a disgruntled lawyer ready to quit a lucrative career for the excitement of journalism. He takes a post as foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has spawned a terrorist group. The novel tackles issues such as terrorism and more intimate questions such as what makes one person magnetic while the rest inspire only a shrug.

Shriver lives in both London and New York. She has written several novels including the Orange-Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, which was made into a film with Tilda Swinton.