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Shadows on our Skin
Jennifer Johnston’s moving, yet sparse and unsentimental, account of a sensitive young boy growing up during The Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry’s first novel is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh
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Serenity House
An old man with a nasty secret hopes to end his days peacefully, but Christopher Hope is not about to let that happen in this jet-black satire
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Knowledge of Angels
Jill Paton Walsh’s intriguing philosophical fable, set on a fictitious Mediterranean island in medieval Europe
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Family Matters
In Rohinton Mistry’s drama about a Parsi family in Bombay, a painful past and a present deception combine to unravel the ties of affection
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Cooking with Fernet Branca
Neighbours' lives entwine disastrously - and the English obsession with Tuscany is satirised mercilessly - in James Hamilton-Paterson’s comic novel
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Satin Island
Tom McCarthy’s strange and elusive vision of a Kafkaesque world in contemporary London, where a company man begins to think for himself…
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The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh brings us face to face with the brutality of love, demanding to know the price of survival in a hostile world
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A Fine Balance
At a time of political turmoil, the lives of four strangers collide. Rohinton Mistry’s epic masterpiece is set in India in the 1970s
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A Blade of Grass
Lewis DeSoto’s assured, tension-filled debut is a story of friendship and betrayal and of the trauma of the land that has shaped post-colonial Africa