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Last Letters from Hav
Travel writer Jan Morris creates an enigmatic, labyrinthine fictional city in this extraordinary triumph of the imagination
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The Good Apprentice
Through the spiritual trials of two troubled stepbrothers, Iris Murdoch conducts an inventive allegorical exploration of morality
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According to Mark
A respectable married man becomes unstuck in Penelope Lively’s witty take on love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly
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Flaubert's Parrot
As Julian Barnes’ enigmatic narrator investigates the life and art of Flaubert, so he reveals his own secrets in this witty weave of fact and fiction
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Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard’s heartrending account of a young British boy’s four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War
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Small World
In the second book of his ‘campus’ trilogy, David Lodge chronicles the pursuit of passion and the search for the holy grail of academic perks
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In Custody
A frustrated small-town scholar lands the opportunity of a lifetime, but only encounters more frustration in Anita Desai’s touching comic novel
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An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro examines guilt, truth and ageing through the highly subjective reminiscences of a retired painter in post-war Japan
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The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
An English teacher bites off more than he can chew when he ventures to the American Midwest to broaden his horizons In J.L. Carr’s quirky comic novel
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What's Bred in the Bone
The second volume of Robertson Davies’ Cornish Trilogy explores the complicated life and hidden talents of eccentric art collector Francis Cornish