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 …
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1. Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
By: Barry Unsworth
4.12
Format: 630 pages, Paperback
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with… read more
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"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way"-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
2. 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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"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
3. The Finkler Question
By: Howard Jacobson
2.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a pop… read more
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"It's never over till it's over with a friend."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
4. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
5. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named… read more
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"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
6. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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7. Morvern Callar
By: Alan Warner
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town … read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
By: Roddy Doyle
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Vernon God Little
By: D.B.C. Pierre
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more
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16. 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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17. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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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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