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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

The White Hotel

D.M. Thomas’ modern classic of enduring emotional power was heralded by Salman Rushdie as a novel of ‘blazing imagination and intellectual thought’

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1981

Rhine Journey

During a romantic journey down the Rhine, one woman’s imagination is stretched almost to breaking point in Ann Schlee’s gloriously evocative novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1983

Life and Times of Michael K

In his first Booker Prize-winning novel, J.M. Coetzee sets his main character on an arduous physical journey, which becomes a quest for inner freedom

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1983

Rates of Exchange

Dr Angus Petworth travels to the small, eastern European country of Slaka. Confusion ensues, in Malcolm Bradbury's entertaining and witty novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1982

The 27th Kingdom

A cat of alarming intelligence and an abundance of oddballs and outsiders inhabit Alice Thomas Ellis’ eccentric and charming fictional kingdom

Type: Book
Date: 17 Mar 1983

Flying to Nowhere

John Fuller’s hauntingly strange and lyrical novel. On a desolate island monastery in the Middle Ages, pilgrims are going missing one by one…

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