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Type: Book
Date: 11 Sep 1978

Rumours of Rain

On the eve of the Soweto riots, narrator Martin Mynhardt, André Brink’s hard-nosed Afrikaner businessman, stubbornly clings to his view of the world

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1978

Jake's Thing

As Jake nears his 60th birthday, his hitherto faithful - to him, at least - companion goes missing. Kingsley Amis leads the hunt for Jake’s libido

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1980

No Country for Young Men

Four generations of two families struggle to deal with the after-effects of the Irish Civil War in Julia O’Faolain’s gripping and engaging novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

The Comfort of Strangers

An English couple on holiday encounter an unsettling stranger in Ian McEwan’s chilling psychological thriller about love, violence and obsession

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

The Sirian Experiments

In the third book of Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos series, Earth continues to evolve under manipulation by advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

Good Behaviour

Heroine and deluded narrator Aroon St Charles understands nothing, yet reveals everything, in this wickedly dark comedy from Molly Keane

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1980

Pascali's Island

Barry Unsworth’s complex study of betrayal, paranoia, deception and fear, delivered by Pascali himself – an altogether untrustworthy narrator

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1980

The Beggar Maid

Over the course of four decades a unique bond evolves between two very different women in this series of interweaving stories from Alice Munro

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1982

Schindler's Ark

Thomas Keneally’s remarkable, Booker-winning historical fiction about the unlikely hero who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazi death machine

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

Midnight's Children

Saleem’s life is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible, in Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece