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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

Eva Trout

Elizabeth Bowen’s portrayal of an unconventional heiress with a huge 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her'

Type: Book
Date: 01 Aug 1972

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jun 1971

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

In a Free State

Through five connected tales, V.S. Naipaul explores alienation, disruption and racial tension in a perilously unpredictable world

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1972

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

The Big Chapel

Based upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, Thomas Kilroy’s anatomy of religious violence remains relevant and vital today

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1972

Pasmore

David Storey introduces Colin Pasmore. At night he runs races in his dreams, losing ‘to every dullard and idler in England’. His days are no better