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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

Jigsaw

Sybille Bedford’s evocative semi-autobiographical novel walks the fine line between memory and fiction as it recreates a lost time and place

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1990

Solomon Gursky Was Here

An alcoholic writer pursues his long-standing obsession with the bizarre and colourful Gursky family, in Mordecai Richler’s rollicking tour de force

Type: Book
Date: 19 Apr 1990

Lies of Silence

Brian Moore’s tense drama focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, the period of conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1990

Amongst Women

In John McGahern’s deeply affecting Irish family drama, an old man struggles to keep pace with the bewildering passage of time

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1991

The Famished Road

Ben Okri’s unique Booker Prize-winning epic, narrated by ‘an unwilling adventurer into chaos and sunlight, into the dreams of the living and the dead’

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