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Type: Book
Date: 01 Apr 2008

The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher’s epic portrait of Britain in the Thatcher years, which expertly charts the lives of ordinary people against a history on the move

Type: Book
Date: 01 Mar 2008

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga’s brilliantly irreverent tale of two Indias charts one man’s evolution from village waiter to larcenous killer to amoral entrepreneur

Type: Book
Date: 05 May 2008

Netherland

Joseph O’Neill plumbs the depths and shallows of male friendship in his dazzling tale of belonging and not belonging - and the uneasy state in between

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2007

Darkmans

Nicola Barker’s startling visionary narrative. If history is just a sick joke that keeps repeating itself, then who exactly is telling it - and why?

Type: Book
Date: 03 Mar 2008

Child 44

In Tom Rob Smith’s gripping thriller, the biggest threat to Leo Demidov is not the serial killer he is hunting but the State he is fighting to protect

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jul 2007

Self Help

Lies, revelations and repercussions abound in Edward Docx’s engaging novel about a dysfunctional family who are scattered across the globe

Type: Book
Date: 01 Feb 2007

The Stars in the Bright Sky

Alan Warner presents an unforgettable story of female friendship, as six young women meet at Gatwick - and prepare to go on the rampage

Type: Book
Date: 19 Feb 2010

The Long Song

Andrea Levy’s bittersweet novel about the last days of slavery in Jamaica is powerful and intimate - and full of mischievous surprise

Type: Book
Date: 07 May 2009

The Children's Book

A.S. Byatt’s vivid and deeply affecting historical fiction is the story of a singular family, played out against the great, rippling tides of the day

Type: Book
Date: 01 Apr 2010

In a Strange Room

Damon Galgut’s haunting evocation of one man’s search for love and a place to call home - a novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion