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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

Type: Book

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

Type: Book
Date: 18 Jan 1993

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1993

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1993

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields presents a fictionalised autobiography chronicling the 20th century life of a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1993

Scar Tissue

Michael Ignatieff’s powerful novel explores the bonds of memory, their configuration in identity, and their relationship to love, loyalty and death