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…
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1. The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
By: Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell
3.93
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them…"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all …"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
2. 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
- fiction
3. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
4. Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
By: John Banville , J.G. Farrell
3.83
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- 20th century
- british literature
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
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
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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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- modern
- 20th century
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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
- fiction
- british literature
8. How Late it Was, How Late
By: James Kelman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
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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- literary fiction
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10. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"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
11. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
12. 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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- literature
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13. The Elected Member
By: Bernice Rubens
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; b… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. In a Free State
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. … 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. 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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19. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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- 20th century
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
20. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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21. 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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