Mortals
by Norman Rush | 
Brazzaville Beach
by William Boyd | 
Poor No More
by Robert Ruark | 
Martha Quest
by Doris Lessing | 
Mister Johnson
by Joyce Cary | 
Mating
by Norman Rush | 
Saffron Skies
by Lesley Lokko | 
The Coup
by John Updike | 
Vital Parts
by Thomas Berger | 
The Origin of the Brunists
by Robert Coover | 
Undue Influence
by Anita Brookner | 
The Picturegoers
by David Lodge | 
Climbers
by M. John Harrison | 
Where the Sea Used to Be
by Rick Bass | 
Return to Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo | 
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson |
Robert Chester Ruark was one of the mid-20th centuries "larger-than-life" characters: journalist, author, world traveller and big game hunter and in this, his last work, it is impossible to fathom where Ruark finishes and Alex Barr, the principal character, starts. In "The Honey Badger", first published (posthumously) in 1965, Ruark--thru his hero--searches for a purpose to his existence in a tapestry encompassing the restaurants of New York, through wartime London to the plains of Africa.