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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
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Crossing the Lines
Melvyn Bragg’s historical fiction, which vividly conveys the spirit of the mid-20th century and the profound social changes taking place at the time
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Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us
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Turn Again Home
In a novel that spans the 20th century, Carol Birch tells the richly poignant story of three generations of a northern working-class family
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Bitter Fruit
Relationships fracture under the weight of history, in Achmat Dangor’s searing novel about a brittle family in a dysfunctional society
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Judge Savage
As disgrace looms, a judge’s life descends into a mess of violence and confusion in Tim Parks’ gripping drama
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Yellow Dog
This dark, funny and relentlessly paced Martin Amis novel explores contemporary culture through a gallery of unique - and often unlovely - characters
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
In Susanna Clarke’s fabulous fantasy novel, two rival magicians’ secret dabblings with the dark arts cause more trouble than they could have imagined