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Illywhacker
Peter Carey’s contemporary classic is a dazzling comic account of one man’s unbelievable exploits across the Australian continent
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The Book and the Brotherhood
Iris Murdoch explores the fragility of relationships. Thirty years is plenty of time for friends to change their opinions. Not least of each other
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The Colour of Blood
Brian Moore’s gripping political thriller. Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bern…
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Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively’s timeless, Booker Prize-winning novel explores the shifting nature of reality and identity through the many lives of its narrator
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Circles of Deceit
Nina Bawden’s powerful exploration of deception gradually unfolds a moving story about lies and truths, forgery and fidelity, love and loss
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Gabriel's Lament
Paul Bailey’s novel about shifting family relationships, loss and bereavement is surprisingly sad and remarkably funny in equal measure
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Chatterton
Detective novel meets entertaining comedy in Peter Ackroyd’s century-hopping investigation into the mysterious death of Thomas Chatteron
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The Beginning of Spring
In Penelope Fitzgerald’s intriguing historical novel, a woman inexplicably disappears as the shadow of impending revolution hangs over imperial Russia
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Anthills of the Savannah
In his long-awaited fifth novel, Chinua Achebe delivers a searing satire on political corruption, set in the fictional West African nation of Kangan
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Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey’s rich and endlessly inventive tale about two unusual characters in 19th-century Australia won the Booker Prize in 1988