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Type: Book
Date: 01 Oct 2004

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's extraordinary debut novel about life’s blurred lines - the grey spaces where truths are revealed and real life is lived

Type: Book
Date: 06 Sep 2004

Clear: A Transparent Novel

Nicola Barker’s ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel is a caustic examination of the circus surrounding an illusionist’s starvation stunt

Type: Book
Date: 24 Jun 2004

Maps for Lost Lovers

In this eloquent and illuminating fiction, Nadeem Aslam opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion

Type: Book
Date: 13 Sep 2004

The Island Walkers

A man has to choose between his allegiance to his friends or the advancement of his career, in John Bemrose’s tightly knit family drama

Type: Book
Date: 02 Feb 2004

Becoming Strangers

Louise Dean’s perceptive debut novel about two unhappily married couples who, after their paths cross on holiday, revisit their flawed relationships

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2004

A Blade of Grass

Lewis DeSoto’s assured, tension-filled debut is a story of friendship and betrayal and of the trauma of the land that has shaped post-colonial Africa

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2004

Always the Sun

Neil Cross’s gripping novel asks the reader a question: how far would you go to protect the child you love from those who seek to cause them harm?

Type: Book
Date: 19 Jul 2005

On Beauty

Male lust and female friendship draw two families together - despite the gulf that exists between them - in Zadie Smith’s engaging satire

Type: Book
Date: 14 Sep 2006

The Other Side of the Bridge

Mary Lawson’s quietly powerful family drama is a heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jun 2006

Gathering the Water

In 19th-century northern England, two outsiders find comfort and support in their mutual isolation, in Robert Edric’s resonant historical fiction