Site search

Use our search to browse hundreds of features and pages from the Booker Library of authors, books, judges, prize years and translators. You can narrow down your search using quotation marks to find an exact match.

Displaying 2371 - 2380 of 3085

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Birds on the Trees

Nina Bawden’s portrait of a family in crisis raises fundamental questions about parents and children, offering tentative hope, but no tidy solutions

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Driver's Seat

In Muriel Spark’s brilliantly dark novella, a search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience turns into a journey of self-destruction

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Bay of Noon

Multi-award-winning Australian author Shirley Hazzard unfolds this intimate emotional drama in war-time Italy, against the fading grandeur of Naples

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

John Brown's Body

A vulnerable young woman becomes fascinated by her neighbour, a man she suspects of an appalling crime, in A.L. Barker’s extraordinary fourth novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

Fire from Heaven

At 20, when his reign began, Alexander the Great was already a seasoned soldier and a complex man. Mary Renault explores the years that shaped him

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Vivisector

Patrick White explores the inner demons of the artist through Hurtle Duffield, an egotist incapable of loving anything except what he paints

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

Troubles

Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, the first of J.G. Farrell’s Empire trilogy is set in Ireland in 1919, when the struggle for independence is about to explode with brutal force