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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1991

The Redundancy of Courage

Adolph Ng, an effete, Canadian-educated hotel owner of Chinese origin, leads a placid existence on Danu, the eastern half of an island to the north of Australia

Type: Book
Date: 23 Aug 1990

The Gate of Angels

In Penelope Fitzgerald’s historical novel, two strangers wake up in the same bed after a bicycle crash. Complications ensue, of both heart and head

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1991

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry’s first novel is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1991

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis’ inventive investigation of a war criminal, which reverses time as one man’s life races backward towards an appalling past

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1992

The English Patient

Set in 1945, Michael Ondaatje’s brilliant and moving historical fiction has been translated into 40 languages and turned into an Oscar-winning film

Type: Book
Date: 17 Sep 1992

Daughters of the House

Set in Normandy, Michèle Roberts’ richly atmospheric novel about deceit and hypocrisy resonates with the power possessed by long-held secrets

Type: Book
Date: 11 Sep 1992

Serenity House

An old man with a nasty secret hopes to end his days peacefully, but Christopher Hope is not about to let that happen in this jet-black satire

Type: Book
Date: 27 Feb 1992

Sacred Hunger

Barry Unsworth’s gripping historical novel about the Atlantic slave trade shared the Booker Prize 1992 with Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1992

The Butcher Boy

Through his narrator’s stream of consciousness, Patrick McCabe portrays the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland in the 1960s

Type: Book
Date: 25 Jun 1992

Black Dogs

Ian McEwan’s brooding and occasionally sinister novel hints at how personal relationships can be beset by demons unleashed in wider human conflict