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Close, but No Cigar

Curated by

Tom Mooney

With England into the final of Euro 2020, the whole country is behind them and success is surely guaranteed…. But just in case the unthinkable happens and they aren’t crowned champions on Sunday, here are a few books that only just failed to take a top prize but have gone on to do alright anyway. These were all finalists for either the Booker Prize or the National Book Award, yet somehow none of them managed to win!

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All books on this list £90.91 £77.26

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  • The Catcher in the Rye
    J. D. Salinger
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  • East of Eden
    John Steinbeck, David Wyatt
    £9.99
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  • Lolita
    Vladimir Nabokov
    £9.99
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  • Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
    Anne Tyler
    £9.99
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  • A Bend in the River
    V. S. Naipaul
    £9.99
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  • Atonement
    Ian McEwan
    £9.99
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  • Never Let Me Go
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    £9.99
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  • Room
    Emma Donoghue, John Boyne
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  • A Little Life
    Hanya Yanagihara
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