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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1988

Nice Work

The final volume of David Lodge’s witty Campus Trilogy is set around the unlikely relationship between a senior manager and a left-wing academic

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1988

Utz

Bruce Chatwin’s unique portrait of a collector traces the mixed fortunes of his enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

The Book of Evidence

John Banville’s novel is the compelling confession of an unlikely killer. To what extent is this darkly poetic admission of guilt actually ‘true’?

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

A Disaffection

James Kelman’s brilliant and complex character study tells the story of one week in a man's life, in which he decides to change the way he lives

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

Cat's Eye

In Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel, an artist returning to her home city is consumed by images of the lavish cruelties she endured there as a child

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

Jigsaw

Sybille Bedford’s evocative semi-autobiographical novel walks the fine line between memory and fiction as it recreates a lost time and place

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1990

Solomon Gursky Was Here

An alcoholic writer pursues his long-standing obsession with the bizarre and colourful Gursky family, in Mordecai Richler’s rollicking tour de force

Type: Book
Date: 19 Apr 1990

Lies of Silence

Brian Moore’s tense drama focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, the period of conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1990

Amongst Women

In John McGahern’s deeply affecting Irish family drama, an old man struggles to keep pace with the bewildering passage of time

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1991

The Famished Road

Ben Okri’s unique Booker Prize-winning epic, narrated by ‘an unwilling adventurer into chaos and sunlight, into the dreams of the living and the dead’