by Colm Toibin
A Dance to the Music of Time 1
A Dark-Adapted Eye 1
The Day of the Jackal 1
Death and Nightingales 1
December Bride 1
Double Whammy 1
Downriver 1
Earthly Powers 1
East of Eden 1
The Echoing Grove 1
Ellen Foster 1
Empire of the Sun 1
The Executioner’s Song 1
Falconer 1
Family and Friends 1
Fifth Business 1
The Financial Expert 1
A Fine Balance 1
A Flag for Sunrise 1
Flaubert’s Parrot 1
The Flint Anchor 1
The Folding Star 1
Forty-Seventeen 1
The Fountain Overflows 1
Friend of My Youth 1
From the Fifteenth District 1
From the Terrace 1
Get Shorty 1
The Go-Between 1
The Godfather 1
The Golden Notebook 1
Go Tell it on the Mountain 1
A Grain of Wheat 1
The Grand Sophy 1
Gravity’s Rainbow 1
The Great World 1
The Group 1
Happiness 1
Heartland 1
Heat and Dust 1
A Heritage and its History 1
Herzog 1
A Home at the End of the World 1
A House for Mr Biswas 1
Housekeeping 1
How Late it Was, How Late 1
The Human Factor 1
The Ice Age 1
Ice-Candy-Man 1
In Custody 1
Injury Time 1
The Interpreters 1
Interview with the Vampire 1
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 1
In the Skin of a Lion 1
Invisible Man 1
Jeeves in the Offing 1
A Jest of God 1
The Jewel in the Crown 1
The Joy Luck Club 1
The Lady from Guatemala 1
Lamb 1
Lanark: A Life in Four Books 1
Last Exit to Brooklyn 1
Last Orders 1
A Legacy 1
The Little Disturbances of Man 1
The Little Girls 1
Lolita 1
The Lonely Girl 1
Lonesome Dove 1
The Long Good-Bye 1
Lord of the Flies 1
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood 1
Lucky Jim 1
Machine Dreams 1
The Magus 1
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 1
Master and Commander 1
Mating 1
Memoirs of a Peon 1
Midnight’s Children 1
Misery 1
The Molloy Trilogy 1
Money 1
The Murderer 1
A Murder is Announced 1
My Cousin Rachel 1
My Idea of Fun 1
Naked Lunch 1
Nation of Fools 1
The Natural 1
The Nice and the Good 1
The Night in Question 1
Nothing 1
The Old Man and the Sea 1
On the Black Hill 1
On the Road 1
The Optimist’s Daughter 1
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 1
Original Sin 1
Oscar and Lucinda 1
The Other Garden 1
Owls Do Cry 1
The Palm-Wine Drinkard 1
Paris Trout 1
Plumb 1
Possession 1
Power Without Glory 1
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1
Private Life of an Indian Prince 1
Puffball 1
Quarantine 1
The Rabbit Quartet 1
Ragtime 1
Reading Turgenev 1
The Recognitions 1
Red Dragon 1
The Redundancy of Courage 1
The Regeneration Trilogy 1
The Reivers 1
Riddley Walker 1
Riders in the Chariot 1
A River Sutra 1
St Urbain’s Horseman 1
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1
Saville 1
Schindler’s Ark 1
The Secret History 1
Ship of Fools 1
The Shipping News 1
The Siege of Krishnapur 1
Sleepless Nights 1
The Snapper 1
So Long, See You Tomorrow 1
The Sportswriter 1
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1
A Strange and Sublime Address 1
The Sugar Mother 1
A Suitable Boy 1
A Summons to Memphis 1
The Sword of Honour Trilogy 1
The Talented Mr Ripley 1
That’s How it Was 1
Things Fall Apart 1
A Thousand Acres 1
Tirra Lirra by the River 1
To Kill a Mockingbird 1
The Tortilla Curtain 1
The Tortoise and the Hare 1
Trainspotting 1
Train to Pakistan 1
The Transit of Venus 1
Underworld 1
The Unfortunates 1
The Virgin Suicides 1
The West Pier 1
What a Carve Up! 1
Where I’m Calling From 1
Wide Sargasso Sea 1
Wise Blood 1
Wise Children 1
The Year of the French 1
About the Author
Carmen Callil was born in Melbourne in 1938. She came to the UK in 1960. A book publisher, she founded Virago in 1972 and ten years later became managing director of Chatto & Windus. She is the author of Bad Faith: A Story of Family and Fatherland, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. She lives in London.
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Master, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Medicis étranger. He has also written short stories, a play and several works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.
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First published in the UK by Picador, 1999
This paperback edition published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 2011
Copyright © Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín 1999, 2011
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A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN : 978–1–84901–817–3