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Type: Book
Date: 02 Sep 2004

Sixty Lights

Gail Jones’ captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, a gifted adolescent at the forefront of a ground-breaking new art form in the Victorian world

Type: Book
Date: 09 Sep 2004

Cherry

When a stranger arranges for you to fall in love there are bound to be some strings attached, as Steve discovers in Matt Thorne’s clever, sinister tale

Type: Book
Date: 31 Mar 2005

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Two feuding sisters join forces against their aged father's glamorous, gold-digging new girlfriend in Marina Lewycka’s hilarious debut novel

Type: Book
Date: 06 Sep 2005

Shalimar the Clown

A killing in Los Angeles has its roots in a shattered paradise halfway across the globe, in Salman Rushdie’s inventive and powerful fiction

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2005

This is the Country

William Wall’s tense and moving novel that sets power and corruption against the fragile defences of love, friendship and family

Type: Book
Date: 07 Jul 2005

Arthur & George

Julian Barnes’ novel, based on a real events, traces the intersecting lives of an obscure solicitor and the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes

Type: Book
Date: 04 Feb 2006

Mother's Milk

The malicious sequel to Edward St Aubyn’s 1990s trilogy, Some Hope, which introduced the upper-class Melrose family in all their decadent glory

Type: Book
Date: 02 Feb 2006

The Night Watch

Sarah Waters’ engaging fiction about four Londoners whose lives and secrets during and after the Second World War connect in often startling ways

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2005

In the Fold

A man’s romantic notions of country life disintegrate as he discerns the deceptions at the heart the illusion, in Rachel Cusk’s journey of discovery

Type: Book
Date: 24 Jan 2005

Saturday

A masterful Ian McEwan explores the incredible fragility of existence, as he charts one hugely eventful day in the life of a middle-aged neurosurgeon