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The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer’s interracial love story between a young Arab man and a white South African woman explores themes of race, class, identity and culture
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How to Be Good
A wife struggles to cope with her selfish husband’s sudden conversion into a much better person, in Nick Hornby’s wise and funny novel
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Half a Life
V. S. Naipaul’s graceful novel is a humorous and sensitive vision of the half-lives quietly lived out at the centre of our world
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Fairness
Fairness is the fifth novel in Ferdinand Mount’s six-book Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which makes up the autobiography of Aldous (Gus) Cotton
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’
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According to Queeney
Beryl Bainbridge’s masterly evocation of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters, in all his wit and glory
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The Element of Water
Stevie Davies’ book is set towards the end of the Second World War, in an intriguing story of guilt and deception that links Wales and Germany
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If the Invader Comes
Derek Beaven portrays a wartime England in which human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe
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The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert explores the complex impact of history on a nation’s psyche through the individual stories of three 20th-century Germans
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Shamrock Tea
Ciaran Carson employs his poetic vision in this rich prose fantasy, constructing a colourful world fuelled by a mysterious herbal hallucinogenic