Project Orpheus

25th August 2020 jng List 0

Kate Atkinson (1951 – …)
Life after Life, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner]

 

Julian Barnes (1946 – …)
The Noise of Time, 2016

 

Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855)
Jane Eyre, 1847 [pre-modern] [ download ]

 

Richard Flanagan (1961 – …)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2014 – Winner]

 

Steven Galloway (1975 – …)
The Cellist of Sarajevo, 2008

 

Emma Hooper (1980 – …)
Etta and Otto and Russell and James, 2015

 

Nick Hornby (1957 – …)
High Fidelity, 1995

A long way down, 2006

 

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-…)
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, 2009 (short stories)

The Buried Giant, 2015

 

Rachel Joyce (1962 – ….)
The Music Shop, 2017

 

Nicole Krauss (1974 – …)

The History of Love, 2019

 

Audrey Niffenegger (1963 – …)
The Time Traveler’s Wife, 2003

 

David Mitchell (1969 – …)
Cloud Atlas, 2004

 

Téa Obreht (1985 – …)
The Tiger’s Wife, 2011

 

Richard Powers (1957 – …)
Orfeo, 2014

 

Brynne Rebele-Henry
Orpheus Girl, 2019

 

Alice Sebold (1963 – …)
The Lovely Bones, 2002

 

Markus Zusak (1975 – …)
The Book Thief, 2005

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