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Giles Foden


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Giles Foden, who grew up in Africa, was for three years an assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement and then joined the staff of the Guardian. In 1998 Foden won the Whitbread First Novel Award for the Last King of Scotland, which was followed in 1999 by Ladysmith - two novels which, according to Alan Massie writing in the Scotsman, 'establish him as the most original and interesting novelist of his generation'.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Last King of Scotland (1998)
   Ladysmith (1999)
   Zanzibar (2002)
   Turbulence (2009)
   Freight Dogs (2020)
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Collections
   Ox-Tales:Water (2009) (with others)
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Non fiction show
 
Giles Foden recommends
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Afterlives (2020)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
"One of Africa's greatest living writers."
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The Irregular (2017)
(Irregular Spy, book 1)
H B Lyle
"H.B. Lyle has found the golden thread between Bond and Holmes in a thriller which engages on every page."
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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011)
Christie Watson
"An excellent novel."

More recommendations 


Anthologies containing stories by Giles Foden
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Conradology (2017)
A Celebration of the Work of Joseph Conrad
edited by
Becky Harrison and Magda Raczynska

Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1998) : The Last King of Scotland
Whitbread Prize Best First Novel winner (1998) : The Last King of Scotland
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1999) : The Last King of Scotland


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