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The following is a list of the books that we have read
since this bookgroup's inception. The star-rating indicates what we thought
of them - five being outstanding. We highly recommend the titles printed in
orange - click on them to read a full review. Click on the other titles in
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Suzanne Berne
Penguin
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Jay Mandal
Bewrite Books
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Charlotte Greig
Serpent's Tail
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Kate Pullinger
Serpent's Tail
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Scott Spencer
Harper Perennial
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Andrew Taylor
Penguin
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Yiyun Li
Harper Perennial
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Nevil Shute
House of Stratus Ltd
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Anthony Doerr
4th Estate
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Jane Feaver
Harvill
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Wole Soyinka
Vintage
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Margaret Attwood
Bloomsbury
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Douglas Coupland
Flamingo
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Tod Wodicka
Vintage
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Lisa Moore
Virago
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Jules Hardy
Pocket Books
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Philip Roth
Vintage
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Oliver Sacks
Picador
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Elizabeth Taylor
Virago
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Frank McCourt
Flamingo
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Indra Sinha
Simon and Schuster
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Meera Syal
Flamingo
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William Boyd
Penguin
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William Boyd
Penguin
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Julian Barnes
Vintage
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Jamie O' Neill
Scribner
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Anne Tyler
Vintage
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Agnes Owens
Bloomsbury
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Kate Atkinson
Black Swan
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Jim Crace
Penguin
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Ann Patchett
Fourth Estate
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Hilary Mantel
Harper Perennial
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Louis de Bernières
4th Estate
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Sebastian Faulks
Vintage
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Caitlin Davies
Pocket Books
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Anne Tyler
Vintage
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Jennifer Worth
4th Estate
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Louis de Bernières
Vintage
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M. J. Hyland
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Pawel Huelle
Serpent's Tail
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Margaret Attwood
Virago
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Shani Mootoo
Bewrite Books
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Jonathan Trigell
Serpent's Tail
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Marilyn Heward Mills
Sphere
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David Mitchell
Sceptre
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Tim Winton
Penguin
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Charles Frazier
Sceptre
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Albert Sanchez Pinol
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Helen Simpson
Jonathan Cape
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Peter Ackroyd
Minerva
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Haruki Murakami
Harvill
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Inga Clendinnen
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Michèle Roberts
Virago
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Richard Gwyn
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Helen Zahavi
Flamingo
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Naomi Alderman
Penguin
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Rebecca Wells
Pan
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David Guterson
Bloomsbury
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Lynne Truss
Profile Books
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Paul Stewart and Chr Riddell
Corgi Childrens
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Oscar Hijuelos
Bloomsbury
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Matthew Kneale
Penguin
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Murray Bail
Harvill
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Carrie Tiffany
Pan
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Penguin
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Ray Bradbury
Voyager
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Rohinton Mistry
Faber & Faber
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Nancy Huston
Atlantic Books
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Alison MacLeod
Penguin
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Sarah Waters
Virago
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Anita Desai
Vintage
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David Nwokedi
Jonathan Cape
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Kathy Lette
Picador
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Ethan Canin
Bloomsbury
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Louise Erdich
Harper Perennial
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Anne Michaels
Bloomsbury
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Tracy Chevalier
Harper Collins
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Richard Flanagan
Picador
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Bernard MacLaverty
Vintage
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Lucy Wadham
Faber
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4th Estate
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Patricia Duncker
Serpent's Tail
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Tiffany Murray
4th Estate
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Michael Frayn
Faber & Faber
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Marilynne Robinson
Faber & Faber
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Helen Dunmore
Penguin
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Meg Rosoff
Puffin
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Stephen Amidon
Penguin
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Sebastian Faulks
Vintage
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Dodie Smith
Virago
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Martine McDonagh
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Milan Kundera
Faber & Faber
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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Hisham Matar
Penguin
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Per Petterson
Vintage
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Halldor Laxness
Harvill
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Andrew Miller
Sceptre
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Toni Morrison
Vintage
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A.L. Barker
Vintage
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Frances Wheen
Fourth Estate
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Carol Shields
Fourth Estate
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Alain Fournier
Penguin Classic
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Jean Cocteau
Vintage
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Pat Barker
Penguin
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Marghanita Laski
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Alexander Ikonnikov
Serpents Tail
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A.L. Kennedy
Bloomsbury
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Hanif Kureshi
Faber & Faber
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Ray Kluun
Pan
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Heather O'Neill
Quercus
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Beryl Bainbridge
Abacus
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Bloomsbury
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Chris Bohjalian
Vintage
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Peter Høeg
Harvill
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Lloyd Jones
John Murray
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Jane Smiley
Flamingo
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Paul Auster
Faber & Faber
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Alan Warner
Vintage
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Oscar Hijuelos
Bloomsbury
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Susan Hill
Vintage
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Will Self
Penguin
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Sally Morgan
Virago
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Richard Wright
Vintage
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William Gibson
Voyager
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber
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Les Murray
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Chris Paling
Vintage
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Elizabeth McCracken
Vintage
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Cormac McCarthy
Picador
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Zoe Heller
Penguin
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Eli Gottlieb
Serpent's Tail
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Jane Gardam
Chatto and Windus
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Zadie Smith
Penguin
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Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape
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Susanna Moore
Penguin
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Margaret Attwood
Bloomsbury
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Gilda O' Neill
Penguin
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Rosalind Coward
Faber & Faber
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Per Petterson
Vintage
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Andrew Miller
Sceptre
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Lesley Glaister
Bloomsbury
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Patricia Ferguson
Solidus
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Marjane Satrapi
Jonathan Cape
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Alan Garganus
Faber & Faber
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Alastair Gray
Penguin
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Vanora Bennett
Harper Collins
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Andre Brink
Vintage
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Mary Webb
Virago
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Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber
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Valerie Martin
Abacus
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harper Perennial
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Jim Crace
Penguin
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Barbara Pym
Flamingo
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Seamus Deane
Vintage
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Azar Nafisi
Harper Collins
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Pat Barker
Penguin
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William Boyd
Bloomsbury
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Rose Tremain
Sceptre
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Jeremy Page
Penguin
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Candi Miller
Legend Press
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Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape
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Ellen Feldman
Picador
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Fred Vargas
Harvill
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Edward Docx
Picador
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Rupert Smith
Serpents Tail
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Lily Dunn
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Kwame Dawes
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Jim Crace
Picador
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Andrea Levy
Review
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Diran Adebayo
Abacus
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Dorothy Whipple
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Deborah Lawrenson
Arrow Books
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Anna Funder
Granta Books
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Niccolo Ammaniti
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Benito Perez Galdos
Everyman
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John McGahern
Faber & Faber
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Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Edith Wharton
Penguin Classic
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Tony Saint
Serpent's Tail
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Fatou Diome
Serpent's Tail
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Anita Amirrezvani
Review
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Will Self
Penguin
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John Fante
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Milton Hartoum
Bloomsbury
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Louise Welsh
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Sarah Hall
Faber
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Linda Grant
Virago
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Truman Capote
Penguin
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Jonathan Franzen
4th Estate
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Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books
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Louise Welsh
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Louise Welsh
Harvill
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Liam Browne
Bloomsbury
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Claire Messud
Picador
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Michael Ondaatje
Picador
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Ben Okri
Vintage
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Doris Lessing
Flamingo
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Suzanne Berne
Penguin
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Tan Twan Eng
Myrmidon Books Ltd
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Marion Husband
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Sue Miller
Perennial
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Bethan Roberts
Serpent's Tail
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Shirley Hazzard
Virago
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Margaret Attwood
Vintage
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Colin Harrison
Bloomsbury
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Nicole Krauss
Penguin
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André Dubus
Vintage
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Scott Phillips
Picador
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Kate Grenville
Picador
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Kiran Desai
Penguin
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Ian McEwan
Vintage
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Jed Rubenfeld
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Karen Joy Fowler
Penguin
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Amy Tan
Vintage
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Buchi Emecheta
Heinemann
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Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury
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Graham Swift
Penguin
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Alan Hollinghurst
Picador
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A S Byatt
Vintage
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Marge Piercy
Penguin
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Eva Rice
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Susan Fromberg Schaffer
Penguin
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Christina Stead
Picador
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Ahdaf Soueif
Bloomsbury
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Roberto Callasso
Vintage
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Penguin
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Emma Darwin
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Carson McCullers
Mariner Books
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Bi Feiyu
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Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
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Sarah Waters
Virago
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Margaret Atwood
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James Meek
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Jim Crace
Picador
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Philip Roth
Jonathan Cape
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Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber
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Bethan Roberts
Serpent's Tail
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Justin Cartwright
Bloomsbury
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Suzannah Dunn
Perennial
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Graham Greene
Vintage
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F M Mayor
Virago
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Magnus Mills
Flamingo
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Cormac McCarthy
Picador
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Margaret Attwood
Virago
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Anne Rouse
Bloodaxe
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John Banville
Picador
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Margaret Drabble
Penguin
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Donna Tartt
Penguin
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Kate Grenville
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Dalia Sofer
Picador
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E Annie Proulx
Fourth Estate
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William Nicholson
Doubleday
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Georgina Harding
Bloomsbury
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Helen Garner
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Andrew Sean Greer
Faber
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William Trevor
Penguin
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Saira Shah
Penguin
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Julia Darling
Penguin
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Tibor Fischer
Vintage
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Günter Grass
Minerva
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Tim Winton
Picador
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Maggie O'Farrell
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A S Byatt
Vintage
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Iain Banks
Abacus
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Rose Tremain
Vintage
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Maggie Gee
Saqi
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Aravind Adiga
Atlantic Books
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Germaine Greer
Anchor
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Nigel Williams
Faber & Faber
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Don Hannah
Granta
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