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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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1982

Constance or Solitary Practices

In the central volume of Lawrence Durrell's ‘quincunx’ - The Avignon Quintet - the party is over and the world is in the throes of the 1939-45 war

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1982

Silence Among the Weapons

John Arden recounts the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man who gets embroiled in the expansionist activities of the Republic of Rome

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

Loitering with Intent

A would-be novelist takes inspiration from life - but then finds the tables are mysteriously turned, in Muriel Spark’s entertaining literary joyride

Type: Book
Date: 13 Sep 1982

An Ice-Cream War

Set in a baking-hot East Africa during the First World War, William Boyd’s darkly comic debut novel illustrates the chaos and confusion of conflict