 | The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Buy new: £12.07 / Used from: £0.99 Ten years in Sheffield from 1974 to 1984, taking on two families with Tolstoyan grandeur
|
 | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £1.41 Debut novel from Time magazine's Asia correspondent, told through the letters of a successful businessman who has committed a ruthless act to get to the top
|
 | The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Buy new: £10.16 / Used from: £1.89 An alternative history of Ireland told from a mental hospital by a 90 year old woman, authored by a great prose stylist
|
 | Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £1.87 Ghosh has written many well-loved novels: the Sea of Poppies refers to the Opium Wars, which are threaded through this historical story like silk
|
 | A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Buy used from: £3.04 It's another biggie: an Australian son remembers his totally awful-sounding father. Funny and over the top.
|
 | The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
Buy new: £7.22 / Used from: £0.01 Grant is a well-loved writer in this country and the only woman on the shortlist: Jewish girl with a rubbish set of cards in life is inspired to think differently by dodgy Uncle Sandor
|
Listmania!
