Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering.
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The Child That Books Built, gave Neil Gaiman 'the peculiar feeling that there was now a book I didn't need to write'. His third, Backroom Boys, was called 'as nearly perfect as makes no difference' by the Daily Telegraph and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571225194 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571225195 |
| Title | Golden Hill |
| Author | Francis Spufford |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2016-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Ondaatje Prize 2017, Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2016, Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2017, Short-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017, Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 |
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