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…
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1. 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
2. The Photograph
By: Penelope Lively
3.38
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more
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"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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
10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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"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
19. 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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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. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
By: Hermione Lee
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself … read more
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