Barry Unsworth

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1985
  • Latest Book:
    January 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Sacred Hunger

1 - Sacred Hunger (Feb-1993)
2 - The Quality of Mercy (Jan-2012)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Stone Virgin

    In its romantic and dangerous tour of history, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin rivals A. S. Byatt's Possession. A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert...

  • Sugar and Rum

    A "powerfully done" (Times Literary Supplement) and tantalizingly semi-autobiographical novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing an...

  • Sacred Hunger

    Sacred Hunger - 1

    Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout i...

  • The Rage of the Vulture

    It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forg...

  • The Hide

    This early work by the Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions the corruption of innocence and forms it into a compelling contemporary narrative set in the rambling, overgrown grounds of an English estate....

  • Mooncranker's Gift

    In this edgy and masterfully written novel, Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth explores the themes of the corruption of innocence and the complications of lust. Farnaby, a young Englishman in Istanbul researching a thesis on Ottoman fiscal po...

  • Morality Play

    Short-listed for the Booker Prize, Morality Play is a medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time -- and lessons for our own time -- by a master storyteller. It is a cold winter in the fourteenth century, and a young renegade priest...

  • After Hannibal

    Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed.Unsworth's contempora...

  • Pascali's Island

    "A masterful tale of treachery and duplicity. . . . Spellbinding."--New York Times The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his ...



  • Losing Nelson

    Barry Unsworth’s Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of a man unable to see himself separately from the hero he mistakenly idolizes Admiral Lord Nelson. Charles Cleasby is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Ne...

  • The Partnership

    Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States. Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the ...

  • The Big Day

    It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb. Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a ...

  • The Greeks Have a Word for It

    When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect. Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolve...

  • The Songs of the Kings

    “Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.”As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustratio...

  • The Ruby in Her Navel

    Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, The Ruby in Her Navel is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present. The novel opens in Palermo, in which Latin and Greek, Arab and Jew live together ...

  • Land of Marvels

    In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Somerville, a British archaeologist, is ex...

  • The Quality of Mercy

    Sacred Hunger - 2

    Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge ...

Award-Winning Books by Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger
1992 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry Unsworth has published 17 books.

Barry Unsworth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Quality of Mercy, was published in January 2012.

The first book by Barry Unsworth, Stone Virgin, was published in July 1985.

Yes. Barry Unsworth has 1 series.
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