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Type: Book
Date: 01 Mar 2004

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us

Type: Book
Date: 05 Jun 2003

Turn Again Home

In a novel that spans the 20th century, Carol Birch tells the richly poignant story of three generations of a northern working-class family

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2004

Bitter Fruit

Relationships fracture under the weight of history, in Achmat Dangor’s searing novel about a brittle family in a dysfunctional society

Type: Book
Date: 06 Mar 2003

Judge Savage

As disgrace looms, a judge’s life descends into a mess of violence and confusion in Tim Parks’ gripping drama

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2003

Yellow Dog

This dark, funny and relentlessly paced Martin Amis novel explores contemporary culture through a gallery of unique - and often unlovely - characters

Type: Book
Date: 30 Sep 2004

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

In Susanna Clarke’s fabulous fantasy novel, two rival magicians’ secret dabblings with the dark arts cause more trouble than they could have imagined

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