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The Conjunction
This Terence Wheeler novel is a speculation on how power passes from one generation to the next and how one buries the other
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Bruno's Dream
Obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death, an old man lies at the centre of Iris Murdoch’s intricate web of relationships and passions
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Eva Trout
Elizabeth Bowen’s portrayal of an unconventional heiress with a huge 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her'
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally’s extraordinary story of one man’s violent revenge against an unjust and intolerant society is based in part on historical events
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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor’s ruthlessly observant study of eccentricity in old age is by turns savagely witty, joyfully funny and heartbreakingly sad
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St Urbain's Horseman
Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithful husband – and a man consumed with guilt – in Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed comic novel
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Goshawk Squadron
Derek Robinson’s brutally funny appraisal of the contradictions of war follows the misfortunes of a British flight squadron on the Western Front
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In a Free State
Through five connected tales, V.S. Naipaul explores alienation, disruption and racial tension in a perilously unpredictable world
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The Bird of Night
Susan Hill’s evocative exploration of love and madness charts the relationship between a brilliant but unhinged poet and his faithful companion
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The Big Chapel
Based upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, Thomas Kilroy’s anatomy of religious violence remains relevant and vital today