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The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie asks what we do when the world’s walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - start to crumble
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The Orchard on Fire
The nostalgia in Shena Mackay’s unsettling evocation of a 1950s childhood is stifled when innocence is damaged by domestic violence and sexual abuse
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Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane’s luminous first novel is a haunting account of childhood set in Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s
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A Fine Balance
At a time of political turmoil, the lives of four strangers collide. Rohinton Mistry’s epic masterpiece is set in India in the 1970s
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Paradise
An African boy comes of age in an East Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence, in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s powerful historical fiction
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Morality Play
Barry Unsworth’s detective story set in the 14th century, a time of calamity such as few others have been, marked by war, plague and fear of hellfire
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Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood’s captivating historical fiction about the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery
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Quarantine
Jim Crace’s imaginative retelling of a biblical story centres on four travellers trapped in the wilderness, and their terrifying battle for survival
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy’s poetic debut novel tells the story of twins Estha and Rahel, and the shocking consequences of a pivotal event in their young lives
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The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood’s 2000 Booker winner is a multilayered drama that weaves its narrative threads across past and present, fiction and reality