The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is…
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1. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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- literary fiction
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"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
2. To the Wedding
By: John Berger
4.03
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and eroti… read more
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- classics
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- literature
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- 20th century
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3. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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- literary fiction
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4. Saville
By: David Storey
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Saville centers around Colin, a young boy growing up in the fictional Yorkshire mining village of S… read more
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5. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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- literary fiction
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
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6. Holiday
By: Stanley Middleton
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside - but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no o… read more
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7. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
8. Something to Answer For
By: P.H. Newby
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
P. H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer Forwas assured of a place in literary history w… read more
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- literary fiction
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9. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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10. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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11. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
12. G.
By: John Berger
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more
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13. The Conservationist
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his … read more
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14. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
By: John Berger
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry … read more
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15. Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
By: William Golding
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to enterta… read more
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16. The Old Devils
By: Kingsley Amis
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wa… read more
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17. Staying On
By: Paul Scott
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more
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18. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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19. Last Orders
By: Graham Swift
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more
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20. Heat and Dust
By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, H… read more
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21. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
