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**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021****Winner of the RSL Encore Award**** From the author of Golden Hill **'My god he can write.' Richard Osman'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'Superb.' GuardianNovember 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, had they experienced the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century - futures that illuminate the miraculous in the everyday, and the preciousness of life itself.
CONTRIBUTORS: Francis Spufford
EAN: 9780571336494
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 279 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Faber & Faber
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
London, Greater London, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction
Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.
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**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021****Winner of the RSL Encore Award**** From the author of Golden Hill **'My god he can write.' Richard Osman'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'Superb.' GuardianNovember 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, had they experienced the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century - futures that illuminate the miraculous in the everyday, and the preciousness of life itself.
CONTRIBUTORS: Francis Spufford
EAN: 9780571336494
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 279 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Faber & Faber
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
London, Greater London, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction
Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.
