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Offshore
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Offshore

The shortest novel to win the Booker Prize, Penelope Fitzgerald offers a delightful glimpse into the workings of the eccentric London community living on houseboats on Battersea Reach
Beside the Ocean of Time
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Beside the Ocean of Time

A crofter’s son living on the remote island of Norday escapes into the limitless world of his imagination, in George Mackay Brown’s lyrical saga
Lanny
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Lanny

Max Porter effortlessly combines England's mysterious past and its confounding present in this enchanting and devastating story
J.G. Farrell
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J.G. Farrell

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool, England, and spent much of his life abroad. He finally settled in London, where he wrote most of his novels
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Harold Fry, the unassuming hero of Rachel Joyce’s life-affirming story, is a man on a mission – to walk more than 600 miles to save a friend
Mary Renault
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Mary Renault

Mary Renault was born Eileen Mary Challans, in London. She was best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness
Judas
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Judas

Steeped in desire and curiosity, Amos Oz’s Judas is both a tragi-comic coming-of-age tale and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason