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Type: Book
Date: 01 May 1983

The Illusionist

Set in the first years of the Christian Church, Anita Mason’s novel tells the story of Simon Magus, mentioned in Acts of the Apostles as a magician

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1983

Waterland

Two East Anglian families are linked by a deep secret in Graham Swift’s eloquent and poignant exploration of water, history, desire and tragedy

Type: Book
Date: 08 Sep 1983

Shame

Salman Rushdie combines magic realism with a fierce rivalry to illustrate his central theme - that shame begets violence and violence begets shame

Type: Book
Date: 01 Apr 1982

Sour Sweet

Timothy Mo’s deft portrayal of London’s Chinatown in the 1960s, where a thriving community lives by its own precise and violent rules

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1984

Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning novel focuses on a novelist who has taken refuge from life in a hotel on the misty shores of Lake Geneva

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1985

Last Letters from Hav

Travel writer Jan Morris creates an enigmatic, labyrinthine fictional city in this extraordinary triumph of the imagination

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1985

The Good Apprentice

Through the spiritual trials of two troubled stepbrothers, Iris Murdoch conducts an inventive allegorical exploration of morality

Type: Book
Date: 11 Oct 1984

According to Mark

A respectable married man becomes unstuck in Penelope Lively’s witty take on love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1984

Flaubert's Parrot

As Julian Barnes’ enigmatic narrator investigates the life and art of Flaubert, so he reveals his own secrets in this witty weave of fact and fiction

Type: Book
Date: 13 Sep 1984

Empire of the Sun

J.G. Ballard’s heartrending account of a young British boy’s four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War