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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

Type: Book
Date: 16 Apr 2004

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst portrays a ruthless decade through Nick, an increasingly-less-innocent abroad, as he gets caught up in the boom years of the 80s

Type: Book
Date: 06 May 2004

The Great Fire

After conflict comes the struggle to reclaim humanity. And, at the centre of it all, a love story, in Shirley Hazzard’s sweeping drama

Type: Book
Date: 20 Feb 2004

The Honeymoon

Who takes their mother on honeymoon with them? Gordon Garrety does - and it doesn’t turn out well in Justin Haythe’s unsettling character study

Type: Book
Date: 05 Apr 2004

The Unnumbered

Sam North chronicles the lives of the hidden residents of London. The city has brought them together. The city could tear them apart

Type: Book

Snowleg

Nicholas Shakespeare’s moving drama follows a doctor searching for the girl he abandoned 19 years ago. Who is she now? And how will he ever find her?