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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1997

The Essence of the Thing

Madeleine St John’s novel about the shockingly abrupt end to a relationship skillfully treads a fine line between humour and pathos

Type: Book
Date: 24 Sep 1999

The Blackwater Lightship

Three generations of women arrive at an uneasy peace after years of strife, in Colm Tóibín’s resonant and complex family drama

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1998

The Restraint of Beasts

After the twin evils of sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, three fence builders flee South in Magnus Mills’ surreal black comedy

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2000

The Hiding Place

Through the eyes of a young girl, Trezza Azzopardi reveals a world rarely seen in fiction - the gritty underworld of Cardiff in the mid-20th century

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jul 1999

Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker twice with this tale set in post-apartheid South Africa, where a professor’s complacency contributes to his utter downfall

Type: Book
Date: 03 Jun 1999

Fasting, Feasting

Anita Desai’s intricate family drama examines the different ways in which two cultures assuage human hungers, desires and appetites

Type: Book
Date: 24 May 1999

The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif expertly weaves together two tales of love across different cultures and generations that reveal startling parallels with each other

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1999

Our Fathers

Andrew O’Hagan’s poignant and powerful debut novel: a moving examination of memories and loss, set against Glasgow’s changing urban landscape

Type: Book
Date: 27 Aug 1998

Amsterdam

A fragile friendship descends into hatred and revenge, in Ian McEwan’s darkly humorous Booker Prize 1998-winning novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1999

Headlong

Michael Frayn’s ingeniously comic art thriller about a young philosophy lecturer’s obsessive hunt for a missing masterpiece