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Type: Book
Date: 06 Jun 2019

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

An intensely beautiful and haunting novel from Elif Shafak about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between

Type: Book
Date: 03 Jul 2005

The Sea

A man attempts to escape a recent loss while confronting a trauma from a long lost summer, in John Banville’s haunting and evocative novel

Type: Book
Date: 28 May 2009

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity

Type: Book
Date: 02 May 2019

Girl, Woman, Other

With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country

Type: Book
Date: 06 Aug 2020

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart’s blistering and heartbreaking debut is an exploration of the unsinkable love that only children can have for their damaged parents

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1980

A Month in the Country

In J.L. Carr’s tale of survival and healing, a damaged veteran rediscovers the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War

Type: Book
Date: 08 May 2012

Bring Up the Bodies

This gripping sequel to Wolf Hall is the second volume of Hilary Mantel’s remarkable trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1979

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

Type: Book
Date: 24 Mar 1994

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

Type: Book
Date: 07 Mar 2019

Lanny

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