[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]First place [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Coetzee became the first writer to win the Booker Prize for a second time with this exploration of post- apartheid South Africa, which centres on Professor David Lurie, in self-imposed exile at his daughter's remote farm after an ill-advised affair with a student. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Second place [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Money (1984)
Martin Amis [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, Money burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees in its wake, not least because of its formidable, if frequently repulsive narrator, ad director John Self . [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Joint third place [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Earthly Powers (1980)
Anthony Burgess [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Homosexual writer Keith Toomey is asked to write the memoirs of the late Pope Gregory XVII - a commission that takes him on a whirlwind recap of the major events of the 20th century. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwan [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Opening in 1935 , Atonement focuses on Briony Tallis , at first as a 13-year-old implicated in the conviction of a family friend for rape and, latterly, an elderly novelist on the brink of losing her memory. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Blue Flower (1995)
Penelope Fitzgerald [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Fitzgerald's final novel is frequently cited as her masterpiece. It recreates the life of the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis , focusing on his romance with a 12-year-old girl . [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Unconsoled (1995)
Kazuo Ishiguro [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Ishiguro's intricate, dream-like fourth novel marked a radical departure from the more conventional narratives of his earlier work, evoking the great European masters of film as much as fiction. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Midnight's Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Rushdie's second novel not only won the Booker prize but was also awarded the 'Booker of Bookers' in 1993. It unites powerful subject matter - the partition of India - with a dazzling, playful style. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Joint eighth place [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Remains of the Day (1989)
Kazuo Ishiguro [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Stevens , a butler at Darlington Hall, takes a trip to the West Country . His memories - particularly of the late Lord Darlington , revealed as a Nazi sympathiser - throw into sharp relief the novel's themes of collusion, betrayal and repression. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Amongst Women (1990)
John McGahern [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A powerful meditation on 20th-century Irish history, particularly focusing on the Troubles, this novel was a runner-up for the Booker prize of 1990, and a national bestseller, confirming its author's reputation as Ireland's leading novelist. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001)
John McGahern [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A study of a rural community in Ireland, the changing seasons and the gradual creep of modernity. A genre-bending fiction that incorporates memoir, history, folklore and a therapeutic reprise of the author's own career. [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Other nominations [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Hawksmoor (1985) Peter Ackroyd [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Old Devils (1986) Kingsley Amis [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) Kate Atkinson [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) Beryl Bainbridge [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Wasp Factory (1984) Iain Banks [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Untouchable (1997) John Banville [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Regeneration Trilogy (1991-95) Pat Barker [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Julian Barnes [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Long, Long Way (2005) Sebastian Barry [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) Samuel Beckett [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Possession: A Romance (1990) AS Byatt [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) Peter Carey [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Perfect Spy (1986) John le Carre [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Nights at the Circus (1984), Wise Children (1991) Angela Carter [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Age of Iron (1990), Masters of Petersburg (1994) JM Coetzee [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) Roddy Doyle [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Gwendolen (1989) Buchi Emecheta [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Birdsong (1993) Sebastian Faulks [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Beginning of Spring (198 Penelope Fitzgerald [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89) William Golding [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983), 1982, Janine (1984) Alasdair Gray [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Transit of Venus (1981) Shirley Hazzard [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Ridley Walker (1980) Russell Hoban [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Line of Beauty (2004) Alan Hollinghurst [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Never Let Me Go (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Disaffection (1989), How Late It Was, How Late (1994) James Kelman [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) Hanif Kureishi [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]English Passengers (2004) Matthew Kneale [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Life of Pi (2002) Yann Martel [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]As Meat Loves Salt (2001) Maria McCann [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Comfort of Strangers (1981), Enduring Love (1997) Ian McEwan [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]No Great Mischief (1999) Alistair MacLeod [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Fugitive Pieces (1996) Anne Michaels [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Restraint of Beasts (199 Magnus Mills [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Fine Balance (1995) Rohinton Mistry [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Mother London (198 Michael Moorcock [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Enigma of Arrival (1987) VS Naipaul [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]After You'd Gone (2000) Maggie O'Farrell [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-2000) Philip Pullman [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]I Was Dora Suarez (1990) Derek Raymond [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005) JK Rowling [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The God of Small Things (1997) Arundhati Roy [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Suitable Boy (1993) Vikram Seth [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Hotel World (2001) Ali Smith [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]A Far Cry From Kensington (198 Muriel Spark [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The White Hotel (1981) DM Thomas [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Restoration (1989) Sacred Country (1992) Rose Tremain [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]Omeros (1990) Derek Walcott [/HIGHLIGHT]
[HIGHLIGHT=#b7dde8]The Passion (1987) Jeanette Winterson [/HIGHLIGHT]
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