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50 Years of the Booker Prize. Backlists and shortlists.

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Ian McEwan / Amsterdam - Booker Prize Winner 1998

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Ian McEwan / Amsterdam - Booker Prize Winner 1998

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 1998Two old friends – Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday – meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly’s lovers years...

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Jeet Thayil / Narcopolis ( Shortlisted for the Booker Prize)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades.In Old Bombay, they say you...

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Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy...

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Penelope Fitzgerald / The Bookshop

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a...

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Jennifer Johnston / Shadows on Our Skin

Joe Logan lives with his parents in Derry, where British soldiers are a familiar sight, and the sudden smashing and crashing of unexpected raids breaks the peace of the nights. One winter he...

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Beryl Bainbridge / Master Georgie

When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea,...

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Bernard MacLaverty / Grace Notes (Hardback)

Returning to Belfast after a long absence, to attend her father's funeral, Catherine McKenna - a young composer - remembers exactly why she left; the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic...

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Carol Shields / Unless

Carol Shield’s tenth book explores the bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and what happens when abstract ideas of how life must be lived are put to the test. It is the...

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Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace

As the story begins, one-time maid-of-all-work Grace Marks is serving a life sentence in the Kingston Penitentiary for her involvement in the vicious murder of her employer, the wealthy Thomas...

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Ian McEwan / On Chesil Beach (Hardback)

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to...

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Penelope Fitzgerald / The Gate of Angels

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where...

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Doris Lessing / The Good Terrorist

The scene is contemporary London, where a loose-knit group of political vagabonds comprises an ill-defined and volatile underground. Drifting from one cause to the next, they occupy abandoned houses,...

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Bruce Chatwin / Utz

Novel about the delights and obsessions of art and collecting. Utz traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War...

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Rachel Seiffert / The Dark Room

The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in...

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Anita Desai / Fasting Feasting

A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of...

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Steve Toltz / A Fraction of the Whole

As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries - about his infamous outlaw uncle Terry, his mysteriously...

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Lloyd Jones / Mister Pip

Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. 86 days have passed since Matilda’s last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of...

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Linda Grant / The Clothes On Their Backs

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Through Vivien we discover the...

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Sebastian Barry / A Long Long Way

Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. A Long...

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Shena Mackay / The Orchard on Fire

It’s 1953, and April Harlency is eight years old and new to the town of Stonebridge. Her parents run a tearoom, and April becomes friends with a girl named Ruby, whose parents run a pub...

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Patrick McCabe / The Butcher Boy

When I was a young lad, twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady, the narrator and...

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Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. In a voice that is both tender and filled with...

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Mohsin Hamid / The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate...

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Clare Morrall / Astonishing Splashes of Colour

When is the right time to tell someone they're not who they think they are?Caught in an over-vivid world, Kitty is tipped off-centre by the loss of her 'child that never was'. And as children...

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Philip Hensher / The Northern Clemency

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning...

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Ali Smith / The Accidental

The Accidental The Smart family is spending the summer in Norfolk. Eve is holed up in the shed, pretending to write her latest book. Her teenage daughter Astrid is trying to come to terms with...

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Patrick DeWitt / The Sisters Brothers

Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and...

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Anne Tyler / A Spool of Blue Thread

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green...

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Ian McEwan / Atonement

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her...

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William Trevor / The Story of Lucy Gault

Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But 8-year-old Lucy...

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Patrick McCabe / Breakfast on Pluto (Hardback)

Set in Ireland in the 1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, an endearing but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown...

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Peter Carey / Parrot and Olivier in America (Large Paperback)

"Parrot and Olivier in America "has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early...

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Brian Moore / Lies of Silence

For Michael Dillon the moment comes just as he is making a decision which he expects to bring him the greatest happiness he’s ever known. An ordinary man trying to get on with his...

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Zadie Smith / On Beauty

Professor Howard Belsey has done something stupid. And what is more it is the stupid something which men his age seem programmed by cliché to act out. Exiled in his own home by the hurt...

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Tim Winton / The Riders

Tim Winton depicts the panoramic tragedy of Scully, a ruddy, working-class fellow in Ireland whose wife, Jennifer, disappears suddenly and mysteriously after he has a ghostly vision of twenty...

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Margaret Atwood / The Handmaid's Tale

Written by the author of "Surfacing", "The Edible Woman", "Dancing Girls", "Bodily Harm", "Bluebeard's Egg" and "Life Before Man", this novel is set in an overtly political territory. Offred is...

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Mick Jackson / The Underground Man

The fifth Duke of Portland is a Victorian misfit, man who spends his time and wealth creating a network of tunnels beneath his Nottinghamshire estate. As he withdraws further from society he falls...

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Seamus Deane / Reading in the Dark

A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal...

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Kate Grenville / The Secret River

London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which...

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Sarah Waters / The Night Watch

This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders...

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Rohinton Mistry / Family Matters

Interwoven in the struggles and dramas of his characters, Mistry creates a portrait of contemporary Bombay, its religious divides and economic difficulties. Growing increasingly...

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Andrea Levy / The Long Song

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

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David Mitchell / Cloud Atlas

In a bold and unconventionally structured work, David Mitchell combines the stories of six individuals. The morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in...

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Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children were sheltered entirely from the outside world and...

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M.J. Hyland / Carry Me Down

Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records...

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Adam Foulds / The Quickening Maze (Hardback)

Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, "The Quickening Maze" centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling...

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Sarah Waters / The Little Stranger

'Sarah Waters' masterly novel is ' " " gripping' ,confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining Hilary Mantel In a dusty Post-war summer in rural Warwickshire'a doctor is called to a...

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Emma Donoghue / Room

He lives in a single room with his Ma.The room is locked.Neither Jack nor Ma have a key. The novel opens as Jack turns five. Jack has never been outside of Room, as he calls it, and although he and...

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A.S. Byatt / The Childrens Book

Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their...

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Sebastian Barry / A Long Long Way (Large Paperback)

Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. A Long Long Way...

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David Malouf / Remembering Babylon

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on...

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Ahdaf Soueif / The Map Of Love

It is the turn of the century. The widowed Lady Anna Winterbourne meets Sharif Pash al-Barudi, an Egyptian nationalist in Cairo. She represents the antithesis of everything he stands for but they...

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