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I ACTUALLY find it difficult to write about likeable characters,” says Dutch author Herman Koch, “because really, they can be quite boring.”

Herman Koch is the author of The Dinner, the phenomenal international best-seller which was first translated into English in 2012. A novel that begins with pleasant, sophisticated adults sitting around a restaurant dinner-table, it gradually strips away the veneer of its characters’ civilised society to reveal nasty and brutish behaviour.