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1. Honey for the Bears
by Anthony Burgess
"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . .Honey for the ... More
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2. The Sandcastle
by Iris Murdoch
A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when ... More
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3. Time of Hope
by Charles Percy Snow
Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot's early life. As a child he is faced with his ... More
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4. The Green Years
by A. J. Cronin
Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin's best-loved novels. It tells the story of Robert Shannon, a young Irish Catholic ... More
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5. The affair
by C. P. Snow
In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his ... More
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6. Winter of Artifice
by Anais Nin
"The cadences... are those of a musician; its colour that of a painter". -- London Sunday Times
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7. The Time of the Angels
by Iris Murdoch
Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a ... More
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9. In their wisdom
by Charles Percy Snow
Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation. Three elderly peers look on from the sidelines of the House of ... More
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10. Jungle Lovers
by Paul Theroux
Calvin Mullett of Homemakers' Mutual Insurance is taken prisoner by Marais, a messianic white revolutionary in a tiny Central African republic. ... More
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11. Nocturnes for the King of Naples
by Edmund White
White's poetry has all the startling, almost embarrassing intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelopshe first ... More
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12. Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness
by Lawrence Durrell
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14. The Late Bourgeois World
by Nadine Gordimer
Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had ... More
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21. The Light and the Dark
by C. P. Snow
This is the second in the Strangers and Brothers series. The story is set in Cambridge, but the plot also moves to Monte Carlo, Berlin and ... More
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22. Who?
by Algis Budrys
Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded in his face, and he was dragged across the Soviet ... More
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23. A Male Child
by Paul Scott
Set in London and South England in the late 1940s, this is a novel about relationships and coming to terms with the past. It is a study of post-war ... More
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