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Jim Crace
Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpiece.
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A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky…
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From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.
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Philip Tew
Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and…
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This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides…
‘A celebration of the modern city … in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at…
An American shipwreck has unforeseen picaresque consequences for an English fishing village.
From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest, a novel about love and grief, music and myth, and about the way society treats its least fortunate.
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Jim Crace blazes into new territory with a near-future tale of politics and love
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.
The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they…
An American shipwreck has unforseen, picaresque consequences for an English fishing village
Inventive, compassionate and bold, The Pesthouse bears all the hallmarks of the writing that has made Crace’s name
A cumulative novel in 64 parts, all on the subject of food. Readers learn that little is to be trusted about food from these subversive ingredients, but there is also…
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Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist, Quarantine is a controversial tale of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their…
The winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a…
A collection of seven loosely-connected stories about an imaginary continent that echoes the characteristics of the Third World. Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the David Higham Award and…
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and rebellion
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Jim Crace’s imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco’s The Art of the Story Series
Makes us see our own world more…
From the two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize and shortlist candidate for the Booker comes an intimate story of characters whose lives have been uprooted and thrown into danger and…
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
On Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon, Joseph and Celice, married for almost 30 years, lie murdered in the dunes. The shocking particulars of their passing make up the arc of this courageous…
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