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Type: Book
Date: 02 Mar 2005

Never Let Me Go

Thought-provoking and unsettling by turns, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel gradually unveils the true nature of three children’s apparently happy childhoods

Type: Book
Date: 03 May 2005

Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel’s comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums is a masterpiece of dark humour - and even darker secrets

Type: Book
Date: 26 May 2005

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?

Type: Book
Date: 03 Feb 2005

All for Love

Constantly fusing historical fact with fiction, Dan Jacobson places three extraordinary characters at the centre of an astonishing comic drama

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2005

Slow Man

A calamitous accident irrevocably changes one man’s life, in J.M. Coetzee’s unflinching portrayal of suffering and tenderness

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jun 2006

The Testament of Gideon Mack

James Robertson transforms the supernatural experience of a faithless minister into a mesmerising exploration of the nature of belief

Type: Book
Date: 31 Aug 2006

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

Type: Book
Date: 07 Sep 2006

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

Type: Book
Date: 07 Aug 2006

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

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jul 2006

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