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Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel’s comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums is a masterpiece of dark humour - and even darker secrets
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The Accidental
Ali Smith’s inventive portrayal of a family unravelled by a mysterious visitor. Who is Amber? And why has she joined the Smarts on holiday?
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All for Love
Constantly fusing historical fact with fiction, Dan Jacobson places three extraordinary characters at the centre of an astonishing comic drama
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Slow Man
A calamitous accident irrevocably changes one man’s life, in J.M. Coetzee’s unflinching portrayal of suffering and tenderness
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson transforms the supernatural experience of a faithless minister into a mesmerising exploration of the nature of belief
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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for this funny and politically acute family saga about a peaceful retirement under siege from all sides
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The Ruby in Her Navel
Barry Unsworth evokes a distant past filled with deception and mystery, whose racial, tribal, and religious tensions are still with us today
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So Many Ways to Begin
Through one man’s unique story, Jon McGregor pays homage to ‘ordinary’ lives, and explores how chance constantly alters the course of events
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In the Country of Men
Whispers and fears intensify around a young boy in Hisham Matar’s gripping depiction of childhood confronted with the effects of revolution
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Black Swan Green
David Mitchell’s wry, painful and disconcertingly funny novel charts 13 months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence