Alex Garland
Books that defined the 1990s
Sandwiched between the Cold War and the War on Terror, the 1990s has been dubbed “the holiday from history” – a decade of relative peace and prosperity, free from the existential angst of previous decades. From J. K. Rowling to Jonathan Coe, Ben Okri to Helen Fielding, here are some of the authors who best captured the decade in words.