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Type: Book
Date: 09 Aug 2002

To the Last City

Colin Thubron’s brilliant exploration of the psychological challenges of travelling, set within the exotic jungle of South America

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

number9dream

The second novel from David Mitchell, critically-acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, is a mysterious coming-of-age story, set in Japan

Type: Book
Date: 06 May 2002

Unless

Carol Shields explores the bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and what happens when abstract ideas are put to the test

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2002

Still Here

Two strangers, each burdened by the past, meet. Linda Grant asks whether these survivors of the battles of the 70s are meant for each other - or not

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Clare Morrall’s insightful debut tells of identity struggles, the approach of breakdown - and the optimism of an eccentric, loving marriage

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