In his long-awaited fifth novel, Chinua Achebe delivers a searing satire on political corruption, set in the fictional West African nation of Kangan
The Booker Prize 1987
Penelope Lively, a two-time shortlistee, finally picked up the award with Moon Tiger, a novel of subtlety and sweep that is still one of the Booker Prize’s most underrated winning novels.
An elderly female former war correspondent and historian lies dying and decides to write a history of the world, with her own life at its centre. And at the centre of that life is her brief love affair in wartime Cairo with a British soldier who died in action.
Lively’s novel, her 10th, gathered warm reviews on publication but some, unfairly, contained more than a hint of condescension too, suggesting it was rarefied women’s fiction. A ‘Moon Tiger’ is the name of an incense coil to repel mosquitos.
Moon Tiger
Winner of The Booker Prize 1987
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Penelope Lively’s timeless, Booker Prize-winning novel explores the shifting nature of reality and identity through the many lives of its narrator
The shortlist
Detective novel meets entertaining comedy in Peter Ackroyd’s century-hopping investigation into the mysterious death of Thomas Chatteron
Nina Bawden’s powerful exploration of deception gradually unfolds a moving story about lies and truths, forgery and fidelity, love and loss
By Nina Bawden
Penelope Lively’s timeless, Booker Prize-winning novel explores the shifting nature of reality and identity through the many lives of its narrator
Brian Moore’s gripping political thriller. Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bern…
By Brian Moore
Iris Murdoch explores the fragility of relationships. Thirty years is plenty of time for friends to change their opinions. Not least of each other
By Iris Murdoch
