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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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

An incoherent man is found wandering the streets of London, at the start of Doris Lessing’s brilliant and disturbing novel about madness and release

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

The Elected Member

Bernice Rubens explores what happens to a respectable, close-knit Jewish family when the apple of his parents’ eyes becomes a middle-aged drug addict

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

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

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