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Shehan Karunatilaka
An epic, searing satire by Sri Lanka’s coolest author.
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Damon Galgut
Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.
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Douglas Stuart
A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy’s doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her…
Bernardine Evaristo
From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity among an interconnected group of Black British women
Margaret Atwood
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
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Anna Burns
Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. To be interesting…
George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn…
Paul Beatty
Winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award
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Marlon James
The winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Set against the backdrop of 1970s reggae culture, disco, sex and excess comes this remarkable re-imagining of the attempted assassination of Bob…
Richard Flanagan
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier…
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Eleanor Catton
The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The second book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated…
Julian Barnes
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May…
Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers…
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From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics…
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
Anne Enright
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…
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Kiran Desai
High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change.
John Banville
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize
Alan Hollinghurst
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times.
D.B.C. Pierre
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. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio…
Yann Martel
A Canons edition of the phenomenal, Man Booker Prize-winning, international bestseller.
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey’s stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia’s most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his ..
Atwood’s Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood’s backlist
J. M. Coetzee
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 apologize to save his…
Ian McEwan
***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Clive is Britain’s most eminent modern composer…
Arundhati Roy
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
Graham Swift
As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters.
J.G. Farrell
‘For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough…
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer’s Booker Prize-winning story of the forces and relationships seething in the South Africa of the day
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
* A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1975
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Ben Okri
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to…
A. S. Byatt
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover…
Kazuo Ishiguro
‘After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?’ In the summer…
Penelope Lively
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ‘history of the world …and in the process…
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Kingsley Amis
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…
Keri Hulme
Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times.
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone…
Thomas Keneally
Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller
Salman Rushdie
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…
Penelope Fitzgerald
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the…
Roddy Doyle
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993 Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke’s heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma…
