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So Many Ways to Begin
Through one man’s unique story, Jon McGregor pays homage to ‘ordinary’ lives, and explores how chance constantly alters the course of events
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From A to X
John Berger imagines a besieged community that finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris's dazzling comic novel. How would you feel if the person impersonating you online was having a much better life than you were?
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Hystopia
David Means offers an alternative, destabilised version of recent American history, through the disturbing vision of a 22-year-old Vietnam veteran
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Night Boat to Tangier
A tragicomic masterwork from multi-award-winning writer Kevin Barry which is mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace
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Breakfast on Pluto
Patrick McCabe combines a poignant rite-of-passage tale with a vivid commentary on the human cost of the political turmoil of Ireland in the 1970s
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Dogside Story
Patricia Grace's rich and dramatic novel, threaded with humour, presents a powerful picture of the Maori people in modern times
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How to Be Good
A wife struggles to cope with her selfish husband’s sudden conversion into a much better person, in Nick Hornby’s wise and funny novel
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’
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According to Queeney
Beryl Bainbridge’s masterly evocation of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters, in all his wit and glory