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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. David is an American in Paris in the 1950s, just mooching around doing not very much, and with no ap...

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley.  Subtitled Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature , this is a book primarily concerned with *checks notes* se...

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen. We're back in Florida. Not this guy , but instead the south-easternmost state of the USA, da...

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. William G. (not this guy , just to be clear) is a quiet unassuming type of guy; lives alone in a flat in a s...

A Question Of Upbringing by Anthony Powell. Ah, schooldays. It doesn't take much for one's mind to be cast back there: the endless ...

Staying On by Paul Scott. It's the early 1970s, pretty nearly a full quarter of a century after Indian independence and the end of col...

Grass by Sheri S Tepper. It is the distant future, a galaxy far far away , yadda yadda yadda. And is mankind living in some kind of shiny t...

The Beginning Of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald. Frank Reid has a lot on his plate right now. Firstly there's Reid's, the family pri...

Day by A.L. Kennedy. Alfie Day has had a better war than some ; still alive, for one thing, and moreover with all of his limbs and most of h...

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. Brendan Doyle is just quietly minding his own business being a professor of English literature when a man c...