Set against a 1980s backdrop, a young man climbs the social ladder and becomes intimate with the powerful.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Booker Prize
Courses tagged with "Booker Prize"
A tale of "comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness" ranging from New York to Nepal.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Can Roseanne McNulty be allowed to rejoin the community - and if not, what will happen to her when the hospital she calls home closes?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Peter Carey's story of the ultimate Australian outlaw won the 2001 Booker - will it win you over?
Category: Literature
A modern take on Robinson Crusoe, or a skewed reworking of Calvino? Join us as we float Yann Martell's novel.
Category: Literature
Loss, recovery and further loss amongst emigrees who fled to London to escape the attentions of Hitler's followers.
Category: Literature
As emnity grows between Britain and China over the opium trade, the characters in Amitav Ghosh’s novel come together on a schooner...
Category: Literature
His father the most hated man in Australia; his uncle a national hero. Can readers make sense of Jasper's memories to get to the truth?
Category: Literature
Follow Balram Halwai as he attempts to escape poverty and enjoy the riches of the new India. Will he succeed? And what will it cost him?
Category: Literature
In April we begin a six-month tour of the works shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. First in line is 'The Northern Clemency' by Philip Hensher, an evocative epic set in Thatcher's Britain. Stephanie Forward introduces the novel...
Category: Literature