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Type: Book
Date: 03 May 2007

The Gathering

A family epic about love and disappointment, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye

Type: Book
Date: 07 Nov 2005

Get a Life

The drastic consequences of a life-saving treatment force a man to question everything he knows, in Nadine Gordimer’s absorbing novel

Type: Book
Date: 09 Feb 2006

Seven Lies

A new life of bliss in the USA seems to have been granted to Stefan. But then things start to fall apart, in James Lasdun’s cunning political thriller

Type: Book
Date: 11 Apr 2008

The Enchantress of Florence

East meets West in a blaze of glory in Salman Rushdie’s masterful, magical story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world

Type: Book
Date: 07 Feb 2008

The Clothes on Their Backs

There are concealed pasts to discover and stark choices to be made in Linda Grant’s tale of a young woman in search of her place in the world

Type: Book
Date: 29 May 2008

A Fraction of the Whole

Steve Toltz’s blisteringly funny debut is this uproarious tale of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings

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?