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Type: Book
Date: 02 Apr 2002

The Mulberry Empire

Philip Hensher’s historical novel about the 1830s British-Afghan conflict focuses on the complex relationship between two of the leading players

Type: Book
Date: 25 Jan 2002

Any Human Heart

William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full turns into a journey deep into a very human heart

Type: Book
Date: 13 Jun 2002

Critical Injuries

A botched robbery has unintended and desperate consequences, in Joan Barfoot’s exploration of anger, remorse and the capacity for forgiveness

Type: Book
Date: 27 Aug 2002

Peacetime

Robert Edric captures with breathtaking economy the sense of portent and uncertainty shared by a community in the aftermath of conflict

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2002

Shroud

Secrets and reality both unravel in John Banville’s portrait of a dark and disturbed relationship, which is doomed to disaster from the very start

Type: Book
Date: 04 Feb 2002

Spies

Michael Frayn’s evocative wartime psychological drama, which revisits the confused innocence of childhood through the memories of old age

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2004

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

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

Type: Book
Date: 04 Sep 2003

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

Type: Book
Date: 09 Jun 2003

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