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The Glass Room
A unique house becomes the central character in Simon Mawer’s colourful fictional history, which spans 60 tumultuous years of the 20th century
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John Berger imagines a besieged community that finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence
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The Finkler Question
A scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity, from the brilliant Howard Jacobson
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A love story, an adventure, a study of corruption and a glimpse into a hidden world - David Mitchell’s novel is a historical fiction like no other
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Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey’s exploration of the great adventure of American democracy, which brings to life the unusual relationship between two extraordinary characters
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The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic
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Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman’s spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood, and the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls
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The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore’s gripping thriller evokes a land ruled by whispers and watchfulness, where betrayal can come from those closest to you
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Skippy Dies
Paul Murray wrings every drop of humour and despair out of life, mermaids, M-theory, the poetry of Robert Graves and the mystery of the human heart
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Snowdrops
A.D. Miller’s chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible man