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Type: Book
Date: 01 May 2009

How to Paint a Dead Man

Sarah Hall’s richly intense novel about art and artists, grief and loss, and the power and fragility of the mind

Type: Book
Date: 12 May 2011

Far to Go

An epic historical novel, inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick’s own grandparents embarked on during the Second World War

Type: Book
Date: 10 Apr 2014

History of the Rain

In Niall Williams’ celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, a bedridden daughter of a dead poet searches for her father

Type: Book
Date: 28 Aug 2014

How to Be Both

Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions

Type: Book
Date: 23 Feb 2017

History of Wolves

Over a few days, a teenage girl makes a set of choices that will reverberate throughout her life in Emily Fridlund’s powerful and intense debut

Type: Book
Date: 05 Apr 2018

The Overstory

Richard Powers’ radical and remarkable novel. Nine strangers are each summoned in different ways by the natural world to save it from catastrophe

Type: Book
Date: 02 Aug 2018

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan relates the astonishing adventures of Washington Black, whose escape from the brutal cane plantations of Barbados was only the beginning

Type: Book
Date: 06 Aug 2001

The Stone Carvers

Spanning three decades and two continents, Jane Urquhart’s novel follows the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art

Type: Book
Date: 24 Jul 2001

The Leto Bundle

Marina Warner interweaves myth and legend, history and politics, to create a kaleidoscopic fable about exile and loss

Type: Book
Date: 07 Mar 2005

The Harmony Silk Factory

Tash Aw’s acclaimed first novel is a multi-layered story of love and regret set against the turmoil of mid-20th century Malaysia