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Type: Book
Date: 29 May 2003

Something Might Happen

This is not a whodunit. Instead, Julie Myerson investigates the effect of a murder on an ordinary community, a family - and one grieving woman

Type: Book
Date: 20 Jan 2003

Vernon God Little

In DBC Pierre’s darkly comic debut novel, an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

The Nick of Time

Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young illegal immigrant finds himself in London

Type: Book
Date: 05 Jun 2003

Notes on a Scandal

When a lonely schoolteacher writes an account of her friend’s affair, she reveals more than she intends in Zoë Heller’s gripping psychological drama

Type: Book
Date: 09 Apr 2002

Family Matters

In Rohinton Mistry’s drama about a Parsi family in Bombay, a painful past and a present deception combine to unravel the ties of affection

Type: Book
Date: 05 May 2003

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood projects us into a less-than-brave new world, an outlandish yet wholly believable space populated by a cast of memorable characters

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut’s powerful tale of an unlikely friendship in an uneasy time, set in a dilapidated rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

Jazz etc

John Murray’s love for all thing jazz shines through this engaging tale of an eternal triangle in a cosmopolitan music scene

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2004

Cooking with Fernet Branca

Neighbours' lives entwine disastrously - and the English obsession with Tuscany is satirised mercilessly - in James Hamilton-Paterson’s comic novel

Type: Book
Date: 24 Aug 2004

Havoc, in Its Third Year

A guilty secret, an old faith or a respect for law can all prove equally lethal in Ronan Bennet’s 17th century England, rife with religious extremism