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Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Booker Prize is...
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Something to Answer For
Something to Answer For (1969) is a novel by the English author P. H. Newby. Its chief claim to fame is that it was the winner of the inaugural Booker Prize, which would go on to become one of the major literary awards in the English-speaking world....
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Figures in a Landscape
Figures in a Landscape was Barry England's first novel. Published by Jonathan Cape in the summer of 1968, it was hailed by critics as an exemplary addition to the literature of escape. Two professional soldiers, Ansell and MacConnachie, have escaped...
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The Nice and the Good
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From Scenes like These
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Impossible Object
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Eva Trout
Eva Trout is Elizabeth Bowen's final novel. First published in 1968, it is about a young woman—the eponymous heroine—who, abandoned by her mother just after her birth, raised by nurses and nannies and educated by governesses all hired by her...
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The Elected Member
The Elected Member is a Booker Prize-winning novel by Welsh author Bernice Rubens.
The novel's main character is Norman Zweck, who is addicted to amphetamines and is convinced that he sees silverfish wherever he goes.
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The Conjunction
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Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
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Bruno's Dream
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John Brown's Body
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In a Free State
In a Free State is a short story by V. S. Naipaul. It was published in 1971 as one of three short stories within a book of the same name, but is by far the longest. Surrounding them is the narrator's tale. The work is symphonic with different...
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Clarmemont
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is a 2005 comedy drama film made by Claremont Films and distributed by Picture Entertainment Corporation. It was directed by Dan Ireland and produced by Lee Caplin, Carl Colpaert and Zachary Matz from a screenplay by...
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Goshawk Squadron
Goshawk Squadron (1971) was the first novel written by Derek Robinson.
Set during the height of World War I in January 1918, Goshawk Squadron follows the misfortunes of the titular (fictional) British fighter squadron on the Western Front. For...
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Briefing for a Descent into Hell
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St Urbain's Horseman
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The Big Chapel
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1978 Australian film directed by Fred Schepisi and based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Thomas Keneally. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor.
The story is written...
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G.
G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger. The novel's setting is pre-First World War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the...
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The Bird of Night
The Bird of Night (ISBN 0241104092) is a novel by Susan Hill. It won the 1972 Whitbread Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Susan Hill commented in 2006: A novel of mine was shortlisted for Booker and won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction...
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Pasmore
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The Siege of Krishnapur
The Siege of Krishnapur is a novel by the author J. G. Farrell, published in 1973.
Inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnpore and Lucknow, the book details the siege of a fictional Indian town during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from a single...
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The Black Prince
The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch's 15th novel, first published in 1973. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet.
The Black Prince is remarkable for the structure of its narrative, consisting of a central story bookended by forewords and post...
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The Green Equinox
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The Dressmaker
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The Conservationist
The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by 1991 Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. The book was a joint winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction.
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Holiday
Holiday is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English author Stanley Middleton.
The novel revolves around Edwin Fisher, a lecturer who takes a holiday at a seaside resort. The work takes place entirely within the mind of Fisher, with much of the book's...
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The bottle factory outing
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Ending Up
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In Their Wisdom
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Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975.
The events of the story take place in India, during the periods of the British Raj in the 1920s and the present day of the novel (the 1970s). A young English...
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Gossip from the Forest
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The Doctor's Wife
The Doctor's Wife, known in Japanese as Hanaoka Seishū's Wife (華岡青洲の妻, Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma), is a noted novel by Sawako Ariyoshi written in 1966.
The partly historical novel is based on the life of noted male physician Hanaoka Seishū. Though...
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Saville
Saville is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English author David Storey.
The novel centers around Colin, a young boy growing up in the fictional Yorkshire mining village of Saxton during WWII and the postwar years.
Saville won the 1976 Man Booker...
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The Children of Dynmouth
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An Instant in the Wind
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Rising
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King Fisher Lives
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Quartet in Autumn
Quartet in Autumn is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1977 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was Pym's comeback novel after fifteen years of publishing rejections, following a successful record as a novelist during the 1950s and...
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Staying On
Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott, which was published in 1977 and won the Booker Prize.
Staying On focuses on Tusker and Lucy Smalley, who are briefly mentioned in the latter two books of the Raj Quartet, The Towers of Silence and A Division of...
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Great Granny Webster
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The Road to Lichfield
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Peter Smart's Confessions
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Shadows on our Skin
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The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978.
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a...
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The Bookshop
The Bookshop (1978) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The novel centres around a woman opening a bookshop in a small town in the late 1950s.
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Jake's Thing
Jake's Thing is a satirical novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1978 by Hutchinson, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year.
The novel follows the life of Jacques 'Jake' Richardson, a fifty-nine-year-old Oxford don who...
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Rumours of Rain
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A Five-Year Sentence
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God on the Rocks
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A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul.
Set in an unnamed African country after independence, the book is narrated by Salim, an ethnically Indian Muslim and a shopkeeper in a small, growing city in the country's remote...
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Offshore
Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. The novel centralizes around the idea of liminality, expanding upon it to include the notion: ...
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Praxis
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Joseph
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Confederates
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Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly based on British author W. Somerset Maugham...
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A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country is the fourth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for the Booker Prize. The book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1980.
The plot concerns a World War I veteran employed to uncover a mural in a village...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
Who Do You Think You Are? is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1978. It won the 1978 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her second win of that prize.
Outside of Canada, the book was published as...
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Pascali's Island
Pascali's Island is a novel by Barry Unsworth, first published in 1980. The first United States publication of the book by Simon & Schuster was titled The Idol Hunter.
The film version, produced in (1988), was written and directed by James Dearden....
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