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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

A Son of War

Melvyn Bragg’s sequel to The Soldier’s Return. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the lives of the Richardson family have changed forever

Type: Book
Date: 29 Mar 2001

Hotel World

In this masterful and exuberant novel, Scottish author Ali Smith brings to life five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives

Type: Book
Date: 26 Jun 2002

The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas

Dannie Abse relates the haunting tale of Dr Simmonds - a man disfigured in a childhood accident whose heart is scarred by unacknowledged monsters

Type: Book
Date: 02 Apr 2002

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

Type: Book
Date: 27 Jun 2002

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?

Type: Book
Date: 25 Jan 2002

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

Type: Book
Date: 13 Jun 2002

Critical Injuries

A botched robbery has unintended and desperate consequences, in Joan Barfoot’s exploration of anger, remorse and the capacity for forgiveness

Type: Book
Date: 27 Aug 2002

Peacetime

Robert Edric captures with breathtaking economy the sense of portent and uncertainty shared by a community in the aftermath of conflict

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2002

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

Type: Book
Date: 04 Feb 2002

Spies

Michael Frayn’s evocative wartime psychological drama, which revisits the confused innocence of childhood through the memories of old age