Silence Among the Weapons
by John Arden
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Find your next read among the hundreds of books nominated for the Booker and International Booker Prizes
With over 50 years of remarkable fiction to choose from, there’s a story for everyone in the Booker Library. From bold new voices to modern classics and prize-winning masterpieces, these books will stir, surprise, and stay with you long after the final page.
Where will you begin?
Constance or Solitary Practices
by Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom
by Alice Thomas Ellis
Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally (prize winner)
Good Behaviour
by Molly Keane
The Sirian Experiments
by Doris Lessing
The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie (prize winner)
Rhine Journey
by Ann Schlee
Loitering with Intent
by Muriel Spark
The White Hotel
by D.M. Thomas
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
A Month in the Country
by J.L. Carr
Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai
Rites of Passage
by William Golding (prize winner)
The Beggar Maid
by Alice Munro
No Country for Young Men
by Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's Island
by Barry Unsworth
Joseph
by Julian Rathbone
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald (prize winner)
Confederates
by Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
Praxis
by Fay Weldon
The Bookshop
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Rumours of Rain
by André Brink
Jake's Thing
by Kingsley Amis
God on the Rocks
by Jane Gardam
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch (prize winner)
A Five-Year Sentence
by Bernice Rubens
Shadows on our Skin
by Jennifer Johnston