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Type: Book
Date: 02 Oct 2014

A Brief History of Seven Killings

In a dazzling display of masterful storytelling, Marlon James explores the extraordinary backstory to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley

Type: Book
Date: 18 Jun 2015

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota's brilliant political novel explores the dreams and struggles of an unlikely household in a warm celebration of the human spirit

Type: Book
Date: 10 Feb 2015

A Spool of Blue Thread

Anne Tyler’s narrative spools back through three generations of Whitshanks, revealing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that shape a family

Type: Book
Date: 29 Jan 2015

The Illuminations

Andrew O’Hagan’s novel is a rich story of war, homecoming and families, a confirmation of the idea that there is no such thing as an ordinary life

Type: Book
Date: 02 Apr 2015

Sleeping on Jupiter

A young woman finds herself chasing shadows when she returns to the city that haunts her dreams, in Anuradha Roy’s vivid evocation of north India

Type: Book
Date: 27 Aug 2015

The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami’s vibrant historical novel is about one of the only four survivors of a failed 16th-century expedition to colonise Spanish Florida

Type: Book
Date: 09 Oct 2019

Lila

Marilynne Robinson’s story about a fearful, awestruck girl living on the fringes of society revisits the characters and setting of Gilead and Home

Type: Book
Date: 07 May 2015

The Green Road

Anne Enright’s story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a novel about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them

Type: Book
Date: 09 Mar 2017

Lincoln in the Bardo

Narrated by a chorus of voices, George Saunders’ startlingly original novel is a thrilling exploration of death, grief and the possibilities of life

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jun 2017

Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy’s shimmering, kaleidoscopic fable. Its heroes, present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in - and then mended by love