Felicia's Journey

Author	Seamus Deane
ISBN	0375700234

A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award

Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing...

Author

Beryl Bainbridge

The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel.

A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted...

Author	Peter De Vries
ISBN	0226143899

It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired,...

Author	Penelope Lively
ISBN	0060971991

I read this book as part of the 2019 Mookse Madness Tournament.

This link contains a plot description – as well as one of the three central characters (who all appear as point of view characters, in some cases all three observing the same scene)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordi...

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Author	Andrew Miller
ISBN	0340728264

Oxygen

Andrew Miller

Having enjoyed Andrew Miller’s beautifully crafted prose in ‘Pure’ it wasn’t surprising to discover the same elegantly perceptive writing in “Oxygen” except that my enjoyment was heightened by the sensitive unravelling of his characters facing...

Author	Brian Moore
ISBN	0586087397

I read this book for the 2019 Mookse Madness Tournament.

Famously The Prime Minister’s wife blackballed The Doctor’s Wife for the Booker due to the sex scenes.

Trying to find out more about Moore the author, and a little underwhelmed with this book, I came across an obituary in...