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Type: Book
Date: 31 Oct 1974

The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer paints a complex portrait of dangerously deluded and wilfully ignorant privilege, set in South Africa during the time of Apartheid

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1973

The Dressmaker

The mundane and the macabre collide in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic tale about the shockingly unexpected consequences of a young girl’s heartbreak

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1974

Holiday

Stanley Middleton’s prize-winning novel is both a precisely observed portrait of English provincial life and a moving exploration of grief and regret

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1973

A Green Equinox

Elizabeth Mavor’s heroine - Hero - has an affair with the owner of a grand country estate, but her attentions then stray to the women in his life

Type: Book
Date: 10 Oct 1974

In Their Wisdom

Writing from personal experience - he was a long-standing member of the House of Lords - C.P. Snow probes the dynamics of British privilege and power

Type: Book
Date: 08 Jun 1972

G.

John Berger relates the story of ‘G’., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1976

Saville

Set in and around the Second World War, David Storey’s tale about a boy from a mining town who grows away from his roots won the Booker Prize in 1976

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1976

The Children of Dynmouth

A lonely teenager becomes a sinister presence in a small English coastal town in this compelling character study from William Trevor

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1975

Gossip from the Forest

Thomas Keneally’s convincing fictional account of the peace negotiations that took place in the Forest of Compiègne at the end of World War One

Type: Book
Date: 30 Oct 1975

Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala skilfully weaves two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule