Read Atonement

A 15-year-old and a tram conductor in 1958 Heidelberg, and her trial years later.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

Shakespeare's son dies of plague and his wife Agnes grieves; the play is named after him.

Death narrates a girl stealing books in Nazi Germany.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

Two magicians in the England of the Napoleonic wars, with footnotes; Clarke's thousand pages.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.