Cormac McCarthy

Hold your boombox in the air for the 1980s… surely the most photogenic decade in history; a decade of massive social, political and cultural change whose influence has dripped through every decade since. And, as usual, there were plenty of writers itching to make sense of it all. So, from Toni Morrison and Tom Wolfe to Salman Rushdie and Alan Hollinghurst, here are some of the most influential books of the era.