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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle’s funny and poignant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of the world won the Booker Prize in 1993
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Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips’ intense historical fiction addresses slavery’s shattering of the lives of Black people through the story of one father’s lost family
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Remembering Babylon
After 16 years spent living with Aboriginals, a young man rejoins European society, in David Malouf’s intense vision of humankind’s eternal divisions
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The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields presents a fictionalised autobiography chronicling the 20th century life of a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905
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Scar Tissue
Michael Ignatieff’s powerful novel explores the bonds of memory, their configuration in identity, and their relationship to love, loyalty and death
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Under the Frog
Tibor Fischer's first novel is both a spirited indictment of totalitarianism and a hugely enjoyable coming-of-age journey
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Reef
Romesh Gunesekera's debut novel is a haunting coming-of-age story set against a background of social unrest and a fast-disappearing paradise
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How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman’s raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world is given voice by Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting
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Knowledge of Angels
Jill Paton Walsh’s intriguing philosophical fable, set on a fictitious Mediterranean island in medieval Europe
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Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, including Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra and Mariana Enriquez