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How Far Can You Go?
How Far Can You Go? (1980) is a novel by British writer and academic David Lodge. It was renamed Souls and Bodies when published in the United States. It won the Whitbread Book of the Year award (1980), and went straight into paperback in Penguin...
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A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa (1981) is the debut novel of Scottish writer William Boyd, a black comedy that follows the career of Morgan Leafy, a drunken English diplomat being blackmailed by an African politician as the country slowly descends into chaos....
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On The Black Hill
On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year. In 1987 it was made into a film, directed by Andrew Grieve.
The novel's setting is the border of Herefordshire, in...
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Flying to Nowhere
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A Parish of Rich Women
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Elegies
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An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his...
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Under the Eye of the Clock
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The Comforts of Madness
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Coleridge: Early Visions
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Hopeful Monsters
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A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 is a book by John Richardson.
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Swing Hammer Swing!
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Theory of War
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Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), an Irish...
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the first novel of Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Ruby Lennox from a middle-class English family.
By interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, the book chronicles the lives...
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The Spirit Level
The Spirit Level (1996) is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Featuring such poems as "Two Lorries", it won the Whitbread Prize for Literature.
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes. Published in 1997 by Faber and Faber, it is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award for 1997 and has been...
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Birthday Letters
Birthday Letters, published in 1998 (ISBN 0-374-52581-1), is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This...
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Beowulf
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English Passengers
English Passengers (ISBN 0-385-49744-X) is a 2000 historical novel written by Matthew Kneale, which won that year's Whitbread Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. It is narrated by 20 different characters...
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The Amber Spyglass
The Amber Spyglass is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by English author Philip Pullman, and published in 2000.
The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, a British literature award, making...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Its title is a quotation of a remark made by...
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 is a book by Hilary Spurling.
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The Tenderness of Wolves
The Tenderness of Wolves is a novel by Stef Penney, which was first published in 2006. It won the 2006 Costa Prize for 'Book of the Year'.
The book is set in Canada in the 1860s. It starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then...
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Day
Day is a novel by A. L. Kennedy. It won the novel category and the overall Costa Book of the Year Award in the 2007 Costa Book Awards. The novel is about a man who was a tailgunner in a Lancaster bomber aircraft during World War II. Later, he is an...
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The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture is a 2008 novel written by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry.
The main character is a one-hundred year old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fifty...
