Offshore is a brief novel focusing on the lives of a small group of inhabitants of barges moored at Battersea Reach on the Thames. It focuses primarily on Nenna, a Canadian living on a small barge with her two daughters, obsessed with the idea of her husband returning to her.

Charles Arrowby, a successful and somewhat famous theatre director and playwright, abandons his career and London life and social circle for a solitary life by the sea, in a strange and somewhat dilapidated house.

Staying On is a kind of coda to Scott’s Raj Quartet, set in the same small town of Pankot, but some decades later. It focuses primarily on two minor characters from that series, Tusker and Lucy Smalley. They are among the few colonial Brits who “stayed on” after Independence, and the novel covers a sort of twilight period - of their lives, of Empire - and touches significantly on themes of nostalgia and regret, particularly through the character of Lucy.

An epic novel focusing on the childhood and youth of Colin Saville, who grows up in a mining village in Yorkshire in the 1940s, passes the entrance exam to a grammar school and subsequently finds himself adrift from both worlds - and increasingly alienated from family and friends. Along the way he has a series of ultimately unsuccessful relationships, plays a bit of rugby, and dabbles in poetry.

Two intertwining stories of women in India. The framing narrative is an unnamed woman who travels to India in the present day (1970s) to learn more about the experiences of her step-grandmother, Olivia, during the days of the British Raj in the 1920s.

A dense, occasionally impressionistic and highly symbolic look at the life of a wealthy industrialist, Mehring, who buys a farm in Apartheid-era South Africa as a tax write-off. He's the "Conservationist" of the title, telling himself that he's conserving nature via his lifestyle choice while actually conserving the foundations of Apartheid.

An academic, Edwin Fisher, spends a week at the seaside while coming to terms with the breakdown of his marriage soon after the death of their son. While Fisher deals with the unexpected intervention of his in-laws on his holiday and hangs out in pubs with his fellow boarding house guests, his backstory unfolds via flashback.

J.G. Farrell's first "standard" Booker winner is the second part in his "Empire" trilogy, this time jumping back to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 for a by turns hilarious and meditative look at a pivotal (if not decisive) moment in British Colonial history, told via a graphic evocation of a four month siege of a British garrison by the uprising sepoys.

The eponymous "G" shags his way around early 20th century Europe, while largely ignoring various major events happening around him.

A road trip through "Africa" featuring two fairly awful Brits, a colonial official and his colleague's wife. The backdrop is a violent coup by the president to unseat the King, the latter the preference of the colonists.

It's 1919 and Major Brendan Archer, soon after returning from the Trenches, heads over to Ireland to meet a woman he seems to be engaged to, despite not being entirely sure whether he is or not.

A previously successful fortysomething Jewish barrister is committed after an amphetamine addiction causes him to see silverfish everywhere.