Results for: Commonwealth Writers Prize
A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the ... More
Self: Yann Martel
Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, ... More
Spies: Michael Frayn
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the ... More
Red Earth and Pouring Rain: Vikram Chandra
The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a ... More
Such a Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in ... More
Salt: Earl Lovelace
Haweswater: Sarah Hall
It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same, the Lightburn family have been immersed in ... More
True History of the Kelly Gang: Peter Carey
'I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young ... More
Jack Maggs: Peter Carey
Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he ... More