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The Booker Prize Shortlist Price Comparison
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The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
A social history story told through the lives of two Sheffield families living in post 1970s Thatcherite Britain.
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Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
This book challenges the notions of slavery and freedom and is set in the 1830's colonial India during the influence of the East India Trading Company and its sale of Opium.
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The Secret Scripture- Sebastian Barry
A psychiatrist compelled by curiosity of the life of one of his institutionalized patients Roseanne, researches the life of this Irish former beauty. Roseanne, now 100 years old has written her own diaries which reveal her as a long term victim of prejudice, bigotry and ambivalence.
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The Clothes on Their Backs- Linda Grant
Immigration to escape persecution, moral contradictions and the family skeleton in the cupboard, interweave this story about a Jewish girl and her evil uncle Sandor.
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The White Tiger- Aravind Adiga
A comical and informative story of a India's emergence into a modern world and one mans entrepreneurial quest for wealth and status.
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