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The Mulberry Empire
Philip Hensher’s historical novel about the 1830s British-Afghan conflict focuses on the complex relationship between two of the leading players
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The Next Big Thing
Darkly comic and deeply sympathetic, Anita Brookner’s novel simply asks: if you were finally free to make your own choices in life, what would you do?
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Any Human Heart
William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full turns into a journey deep into a very human heart
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Critical Injuries
A botched robbery has unintended and desperate consequences, in Joan Barfoot’s exploration of anger, remorse and the capacity for forgiveness
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Peacetime
Robert Edric captures with breathtaking economy the sense of portent and uncertainty shared by a community in the aftermath of conflict
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Shroud
Secrets and reality both unravel in John Banville’s portrait of a dark and disturbed relationship, which is doomed to disaster from the very start
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Spies
Michael Frayn’s evocative wartime psychological drama, which revisits the confused innocence of childhood through the memories of old age
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The Electric Michelangelo
Through her vivid depiction of two very different seaside cultures, Sarah Hall chronicles the remarkable life and times of a misfit tattoo artist
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Frankie & Stankie
Barbara Trapido’s historical novel follows two sisters growing up in South Africa as the apparatus of apartheid repression rolls into the land
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Elizabeth Costello
Despite her fame, a celebrated author continues the struggle to articulate her vision, in J.M. Coetzee’s exploration of the creative mind