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Life and Times of Michael K
In his first Booker Prize-winning novel, J.M. Coetzee sets his main character on an arduous physical journey, which becomes a quest for inner freedom
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Rates of Exchange
Dr Angus Petworth travels to the small, eastern European country of Slaka. Confusion ensues, in Malcolm Bradbury's entertaining and witty novel
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The 27th Kingdom
A cat of alarming intelligence and an abundance of oddballs and outsiders inhabit Alice Thomas Ellis’ eccentric and charming fictional kingdom
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Flying to Nowhere
John Fuller’s hauntingly strange and lyrical novel. On a desolate island monastery in the Middle Ages, pilgrims are going missing one by one…
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The Illusionist
Set in the first years of the Christian Church, Anita Mason’s novel tells the story of Simon Magus, mentioned in Acts of the Apostles as a magician
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Waterland
Two East Anglian families are linked by a deep secret in Graham Swift’s eloquent and poignant exploration of water, history, desire and tragedy
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Shame
Salman Rushdie combines magic realism with a fierce rivalry to illustrate his central theme - that shame begets violence and violence begets shame
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Sour Sweet
Timothy Mo’s deft portrayal of London’s Chinatown in the 1960s, where a thriving community lives by its own precise and violent rules
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Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning novel focuses on a novelist who has taken refuge from life in a hotel on the misty shores of Lake Geneva
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Last Letters from Hav
Travel writer Jan Morris creates an enigmatic, labyrinthine fictional city in this extraordinary triumph of the imagination