Ian McEwan's 1997 novel Enduring Love is a psychological study about love and obsession.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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20th century
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Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club follows three teenage friends growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir Out Of Africa recalls the author's time spent living in Kenya working on a coffee plantation.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Vladimir Nabokov's 1930 novel The Luzhin Defence follows a chess master and his decline in mental health.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
As tensions between Germany and England come to a head, two families struggle to connect.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
More than one charlatan in academia? Qian Zhongshu takes on pseudo-intellectualism in the era after the Sino-Japanese War.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
A couple take their first steps towards intimacy against the sound of the surf crashing on the Dorset coast. It's not as romantic as it sounds...
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Barbara Kingsolver had to wait three decades before she felt mature enough to write this book - was the wait worth it?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Set against a 1980s backdrop, a young man climbs the social ladder and becomes intimate with the powerful.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Let us be your guide to the story of strange events in the English countryside, as we introduce Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
A tale of "comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness" ranging from New York to Nepal.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The tales in these three books start in rural Canada, but take the reader much, much further.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Is there anything left to say about Orwell's seminal work on Authoritarian states? Yes, there is.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In Neasden, two girls share a loft, apparently alike - but not once you read more closely.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Doris Lessing's debut novel drew deep on her experiences in 1950s Rhodesia.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Set against the Eisenhower Presidency, Revolutionary Road captures 1950s America - and preshadows what would come next.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The Open University's Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies shares his experiences as a teacher during the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Category: Education & Development
Which writers were fast friends - and who had book-throwing beefs? Unpick the cliques and clans of 20th century literature
Category: History & The Arts
Aretha Franklin's death in 2018 saw the loss not just of a sublime singer, but also one of key figures in the US Civil Rights movement. Leah Kardos pays tribute.
Category: History
His message on civil rights was unequivocal - but Paul Harvey argues that in Martin Luther King's economic and social message was his greatest claim to radicalism.
Category: History