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The Nicci French oeuvre runs to 18 psychological thrillers, beginning with The Memory Game in 1997 and most recently including Saturday Requiem, publi...
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The most famous work of J.G. Ballard, who died aged 78 in 2009, is very possibly Empire of the Sun, a vividly autobiographical novel set in the Far E...
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The last feature in this category was about a book called Number 11. This one is about No. 10 – more specifically, the soon-to-be inhabitants o...
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On page 231 of Number 11 is George Osborne’s (in)famous line to the Conservative Party Conference in 2009: “We are all in this together....
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The much-acclaimed author, Julian Barnes, won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending, which – for what it’s wor...
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