Books by barry unsworth

This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. 'Gripping..."Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 and 1765...it concerns the entangled and ...

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For five hundred years a statue of the Madonna has watched over Venice. Now, dulled by time and pollution, she is prepared for restoration. As Simon ... More

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It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of ... More

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Renowned British novelist Unsworth documents his fascinating travels in Crete, largest of the Greek isles and home to the Minoan civilization of 1500 ... More

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In 1914, an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces ... More

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As the child of an absent mother and a disapproving father, Charles Cleasby found comfort in solitary games of chess. Many years later, in the house ... More

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A thoroughly modern tale of politics, spin-doctoring, and media manipulation. As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis ... More

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Professor Monti is trying to interpret the history of Umbria to his students. It sometimes helps him to forget the unexpected desertion of his wife. ... More

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The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes ... More

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This early work by Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions--the corruption of innocence--and forms it ... More

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Thurstan, a young Norman and would-be Knight at the Court of King Roger in Palermo, has been in love since boyhood with Lady Alicia, now returned a ... More

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Set in Constantinople in 1908, Robert Markham, an Englishman in government service, arrives with his imperious wife and young son. Unknown to his ... More

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On the Agean island where Pascali the spy is filing his last report to this Turkish paymasters, the old Europe can already be heard dropping apart. ... More

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The celebrated Mooncracker, now a pitiful alcoholic deserted by his secretary, his mind almost deranged by drink, was once a formative influence on ... More

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Benson is a 63-year-old writer who is losing command of his former skill, and directs his literary efforts towards a group of disparate lonely people ... More

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In "The Partnership", Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourists. Booker Prize winner ... More

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Cuthbertson's Regional School of Further Studies is an unconventional centre of learning, a school where "value for money" is all important. But this ... More

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Two men arrive in Athens on the same ship, Kennedy, an Englishman who is looking for a teaching job, and a young Greek, Mitsos. At the end of the ... More

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Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, this work is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the ... More

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A blasphemous outcast, Matthew Paris boards the "Liverpool Merchant" as ship's doctor as it embarks on a mercantile voyage in the slave trade. An ... More

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