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Isma, a British Muslim woman, is free at last to study in America after raising her twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, but Parvaiz has gone to follow the jihadi father he never knew.
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The Good Terrorist
Alice, a middle-class revolutionary in her thirties, moves in with a group of comrades squatting in a derelict London house and sets about making it a home while they plan something bigger.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.
The Secret Agent
A spy ring in Edwardian London uses a pornography shop as a front, and the plot that unfolds exposes the cynicism of all political violence.
A Thousand Acres
A modern retelling of King Lear set on an Iowa farm, where a father's decision to divide his land among three daughters unleashes buried secrets and destruction.
Jack Maggs
In 1837, Jack Maggs, a convict transported to Australia, comes back secretly to London to find the young gentleman he has paid for, and is studied by Tobias Oates, an ambitious young writer.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.
Mao II
A reclusive novelist lets a photographer take his picture and is drawn out of hiding into a scheme to free a young poet held hostage in Beirut.
American Pastoral
A successful Jewish-American glove manufacturer watches his family and his country unravel in the aftermath of the 1960s counterculture.
Northern Spy
Tessa, a BBC producer in Belfast on maternity leave, watches the news of an IRA robbery and sees her sister Marian on screen, pulling on a balaclava.
A Burning
Jivan, a young Muslim woman from a Kolkata slum, is arrested for a terrorist attack on a train after a careless Facebook post, and two people who could help her have ambitions of their own.
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters in 1950s Louisiana grow up to live on opposite sides of the colour line, and the distance between them becomes a map of American racial identity.