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

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

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.

A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.

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

One June day in London, a party and a shell-shocked veteran; Woolf's stream of consciousness.