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Type: Book
Date: 01 Mar 2001

Fairness

Fairness is the fifth novel in Ferdinand Mount’s six-book Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which makes up the autobiography of Aldous (Gus) Cotton

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

True History of the Kelly Gang

Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

According to Queeney

Beryl Bainbridge’s masterly evocation of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters, in all his wit and glory

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

The Element of Water

Stevie Davies’ book is set towards the end of the Second World War, in an intriguing story of guilt and deception that links Wales and Germany

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

If the Invader Comes

Derek Beaven portrays a wartime England in which human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

The Dark Room

Rachel Seiffert explores the complex impact of history on a nation’s psyche through the individual stories of three 20th-century Germans

Type: Book
Date: 29 Mar 2001

Shamrock Tea

Ciaran Carson employs his poetic vision in this rich prose fantasy, constructing a colourful world fuelled by a mysterious herbal hallucinogenic

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