2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
By Peter Carey
Paperback
Published 05-Aug-2004
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This story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and as his country's Robin Hood.
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Atonement
By Ian McEwan
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Published 02-May-2002
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A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.
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Oxygen
By Andrew Miller
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Published 20-Jun-2002
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a deeply moving exploration of courage, love and liberation in the modern age
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Number9dream
By David Mitchell
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Published 29-Sep-2001
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David Mitchell's Booker Prize-shortlisted second novel.
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Hotel World
By Ali Smith
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Published 25-Apr-2002
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Explores the lives of five women connected by one hotel. This book shares their very different experiences of life in the aftermath of death, of pain and sorrow, of hope and love - everything, in fact, that the world dares to throw at us.
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