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The Gathering
Anne Enright

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape

Man Booker Prize Winner 2007 The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what... Buy or find out more 


The Inheritance Of Loss
Kiran Desai

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned gran... Buy or find out more 



The Sea
John Banville

$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trau... Buy or find out more 


Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre

$0.00 – Compact disc / Penguin

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. News of the tragedy serves as open invitation to the media and soon the quirky ... Buy or find out more 



Life Of Pi
Yann Martel

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Canongate

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, one zebra (with broken leg), an orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal... Buy or find out more 


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True History Of The Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Winner of the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

With Ned Kelly as narrator, this is the heart-rending story of a young boy growing up in the grinding poverty of colonial Victoria and of a young man defiantly resisting t... Buy or find out more 



The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

$24.99 – Trade paperback / Virago

Winner of the 2000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge'. More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura s mysterious death. The compelling story... Buy or find out more 


Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to s... Buy or find out more 



Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Cli... Buy or find out more 


The God Of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

$19.99 – Paperback book / Flamingo

The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a high-caste family in a small village in India. A compelling story which marries the deepest, smallest personal emotions with an epic narrative. Winner Booker Prize 19... Buy or find out more 



Last Orders
Graham Swift

$22.00 – Paperback book / Picador

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How Late It Was How Late
James Kelman

$27.95 – Trade paperback / Minerva

Sammy's had a bad week - most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and t... Buy or find out more 



Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

$21.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymou... Buy or find out more 



Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth

$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

'That very rare thing, a top-notch historical novel...Unsworth's theme is human rivalry; his subject is the slave trade of the mid eighteenth century...Sacred Hunger is a tremendous performance' - D.J. Taylor, Sunday Tim... Buy or find out more 


The Famished Road
Ben Okri

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

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Possession: A Romance
A.S. Byatt

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Winner of the Booker Prize.

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of tw... Buy or find out more 


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Oscar And Lucinda
Peter Carey

$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken w... Buy or find out more 



Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world and in the process, my own'. Gradua... Buy or find out more 


The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Winner of the Booker Prize.

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by profession... Buy or find out more 



The Bone People
Keri Hulme

$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador

The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, t... Buy or find out more 


Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

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Life And Times Of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

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Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally

$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller.

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur... Buy or find out more 



Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with ... Buy or find out more 


Rites Of Passage
William Golding

$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking ... Buy or find out more 



Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald

$22.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

An attractive new-cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald’s award-winning comic novel. Offshore is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community which rises and falls with the tide of the Thames on Batte... Buy or find out more 


The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in orde... Buy or find out more 



Saville
David Storey

$29.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

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Heat And Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

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The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

$23.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly i... Buy or find out more 


 

The Siege Of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell

$23.00$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House

Book two in Farrell's Empire Trilogy.

Set in India in 1857, the year of bloody rebellion, this Booker Prize winner tells of a Victorian outpost confident of its superior culture and military strength-until it finds itsel... Buy or find out more 



 

G: A Novel
John Berger

$24.95$21.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

This novel centres on G, who seems impervious to everything around him. His interests are purely sexual, his crowning ideal fulfilment. Yet, in the end this is enough for the politics of desire to expose the criminal pol... Buy or find out more 


In A Free State
V. S. Naipul

$22.00 – Paperback book /

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