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| 2009 |
| Wolf Hall: A Novel |
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Hilary Mantel
Library Journal
: Starred Review. As Henry VIII's go-to man for his dirty work, Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540 ...More |
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| 2008 |
| The White Tiger |
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Aravind Adiga
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. A brutal view of India's class struggles is cunningly presented in Adiga' ...More |
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| 2007 |
| The Gathering |
Anne Enright
Library Journal
: It seems that large, extended families are brought together for two events, weddings and funerals, ...More |
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| 2006 |
| The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai
Library Journal: A shell of his once imposing self, retired magistrate Patel retreats from society to live on what w ...More |
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| 2005 |
| The Sea |
John Banville
Library Journal: âI have carried the memory of that moment through a whole half century, as if it were the emb ...More |
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| 2004 |
| The Line of Beauty |
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Alan Hollinghurst
Publishers Weekly
: Among its other wonders, this almost perfectly written novel, recently longlisted for the Mann B ...More |
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| 2003 |
| Vernon God Little |
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DBC Pierre
Library Journal
: Published to critical acclaim in England, this first novel is a satirical look at contemporary Ame ...More |
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| 2002 |
| Life of Pi |
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Yann Martel
Library Journal
: Named for a swimming pool in Paris the Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel begins this extraordin ...More |
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| 2000 |
| The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood
Library Journal
: Atwood does not mess around in her riveting new tale: by the end of the first sentence, we know th ...More |
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| 1999 |
| Disgrace |
J M Coetzee
Library Journal
: The "disgrace" of the title belongs to David Lurie, a white, middle-aged professor at Ca ...More |
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| 1994 |
| How Late It Was, How Late |
James Kelman
Publisher's Weekly
: Set in Glasglow and written in dialect, Scottish novelist Kelman's controversial black comedy w ...More |
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| 1993 |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
Roddy Doyle
Publishers Weekly
: Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel, told from the perspective of Irish, working-class 10-year-ol ...More |
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| 1992 |
| The English Patient |
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Michael Ondaatje
Publishers Weekly
: Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final days ...More |
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| 1990 |
| Possession |
A S Byatt
Publishers Weekly
: Two contemporary scholars, each studying one of two Victorian poets, reconstruct their subjects' ...More |
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| 1989 |
| The Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro
Publishers Weekly
: Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates o ...More |
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| 1986 |
| The Old Devils |
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Kingsley Amis
Library Journal
: ``The Old Devils'' are aged drinking partners whose number is enlarged and enlivened when poet Alu ...More |
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| 1985 |
| The Bone People |
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Keri Hume
Publishers Weekly
: Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize, this novel by a New Zealander of Maori, Scottish and English an ...More |
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| 1979 |
| Offshore |
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Library Journal
: Fitzgerald was red hot in 1998. Not only did her most recent work, The Blue Flower, win top fictio ...More |
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John Berger
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