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Library Journal In tribute to his childhood pal, Samuel Finkler, Julian Treslove, a former BBC arts producer...More

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Library Journal This first novel by Indian writer Adiga depicts the awakening of a low-caste Indian man to t...More

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Publishers Weekly This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980...More

Publishers Weekly Banville's magnificent new novel, which won this year's Man Booker Prize and is be...More

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Publishers Weekly Pierre takes a freewheeling, irreverent look at teenage Sturm und Drang in his erratic, som...More

Library Journal Named for a swimming pool in Paris the Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel begins this extr...More

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Book list Stories spin within stories in this spellbinding novel of avarice, love, and revenge. It begins in ...More

Publishers Weekly As a writer, Coetzee is a literary cascade, with a steady output of fiction and criticism (...More

Library Journal Two lovers of feisty Molly Lane, both influential men, make a pact upon her death that leads ...More

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Kirkus Britisher Swift's sixth novel (Ever After, 1992 etc.) and fourth to appear here is a slow-to-start...More

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Publishers Weekly Set in Glasglow and written in dialect, Scottish novelist Kelman's controversial black ...More

Publishers Weekly Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel, told from the perspective of Irish, working-class 1...More

Publishers Weekly Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final...More

Publishers Weekly This vast, vividly realistic historical novel follows the crew of a slave-trading vessel fr...More

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Publishers Weekly Two contemporary scholars, each studying one of two Victorian poets, reconstruct their subj...More

Publishers Weekly Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, rumina...More

Choice There are two main strands in Carey's novel; the relationship between the two compulsive gamblers ...More

Book list Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel, in which an elderly historian reflects on her life and wor...More

Library Journal ``The Old Devils'' are aged drinking partners whose number is enlarged and enlivened ...More

Publishers Weekly Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize, this novel by a New Zealander of Maori, Scottish and Engli...More

Publishers Weekly The winner of the 1984 Booker Prize, this novel tells the story of Edith Hope, 40, unmarrie...More

Kirkus When Indian novelist Rushdie arrived with Grimus in 1979 we called him "an imagination to watch.&...More

Kirkus A different sort of Golding novel--at least until his familiar themes rise all too clearly (and rather...More

Library Journal With her latest effort, The Blue Flower, making many best lists for 1997 as well as winning t...More

Kirkus There is a faint smell of fire and brimstone when something of the past comes tearing to the surface v...More

Kirkus Here is a new novel of Dickensian scope and Flaubertian restraint that one reads with the instant trus...More

Kirkus Jhabvala's eighth novel intertwines two stories of two Indias over half a century, and what the bo...More

Kirkus A novel with the same carefully exhaled quality of Gordimer's short stories -- less like storytell...More

Kirkus An isolated British garrison falls prey to the 1857 Sepoy rebellion. The native Indian mutineers never...More