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Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

**WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020**
*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2020*

'Blisteringly effective, written with an almost hallucinogenic clarity... Throw Me to the Wolves is intensely powerful'
Guardian

A young woman has been murdered, and a neighbour, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner - intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes - he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering. In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the smart-talking, quick-witted Gary, and his watchful colleague, Ander. Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher - Michael Wolphram - whom he hasn't seen in nearly 30 years.

Another outsider, another loner in a school system rife with abuse and bullying, Ander has another case to solve: the cold case of his own childhood.

Throw Me to the Wolves Reviews

Throw Me to the Wolves is, on the face of it, a made-for-TV procedural police drama... Scratch the surface, however, and all of Britain's restless undercurrents are churning away... this is literary fiction as it should be: in stylish, surprising, lyrical sentences we are forced to confront the hidden power structures, public and private, that control our everyday lives. It's reminiscent of Edward St Aubyn, not only in its pillorying of the elite, but the pleasure McGuinness takes in having his characters say clever things. It's also a proper page-turner. -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
This is a writer worth knowing... [McGuinness] combines elegant prose with caustic commentary on romance, education and crime... most people can write for a lifetime and not produce so perfect a sentence. -- Patrick Anderson * Washington Post *
Blisteringly effective, written with an almost hallucinogenic clarity... Throw Me to the Wolves is intensely powerful. -- Justine Jordon * Guardian *
An extraordinary writer of great compassion, McGuinness combines a mesmerising crime novel with a forensic look at the brutalising mechanisms of the British Public School system. Stunning. -- Denise Mina
An absorbing novel... on virtually every page, there are perfectly judged descriptions that reveal something about the world. * Financial Times *

About Patrick McGuinness

Born in Tunisia in 1968, Patrick McGuinness is the author of one previous novel, The Last Hundred Days, which was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and won the 2012 Wales Book of the Year Award. His other books include two collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), and Jilted City (2010), and Other People's Countries (2015), which won the Duff Cooper Prize and was the Wales Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he lectures in French.

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GOR010904018

ISBN 13

9781529110609

ISBN 10

1529110602

Title

Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

Author

Patrick McGuinness

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2020-08-27

Number of pages

336

Prizes

Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2020 (UK)

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Throw Me to the Wolves Patrick McGuinness

Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness

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