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A small band of Neanderthals, returning to their spring home after the winter, become aware of strange new creatures in the forest.
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Pincher Martin
Christopher Martin, a naval officer torpedoed in the Atlantic during the Second World War, drags himself onto a bare rock in the ocean and fights to stay alive.
The Last House on Needless Street
In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street lives Ted, his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia, and next door moves a woman who believes Ted took her sister eleven years ago.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
Lord of the Flies
British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island build a society that collapses into savagery, revealing the darkness beneath civilisation's veneer.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
A nine-year-old boy moves with his SS-officer father to a house next to a camp whose fence he does not understand, and makes a friend on the other side of it.
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.
Life of Pi
When the ship carrying his family's zoo sinks, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel is left adrift in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and has to find a way to survive with him.
Harvest
On the morning after harvest in a remote English village, two fires and three strangers on the edge of the common start a week that will end the old way of life there.
The Fishermen
Four brothers in 1990s Akure, Nigeria, skip school to fish in a forbidden river, and a madman's prophecy that the eldest will be killed by a fisherman sets the family on a course towards tragedy.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
Blindness
A nameless city descends into chaos when an epidemic of blindness strikes without warning, and humanity's darkest instincts surface.
Return to Ithaca
Odysseus, worn out by twenty years of war and wandering, washes up among the Phaeacians and makes his way home to Ithaca, where suitors are eating through his house.