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Francis Spufford
(b.1964)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.
Awards: RSL (2022), Desmond Elliott (2017), Costa (2016) see all
Genres: Science Fiction, Historical
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Books containing stories by Francis Spufford
The Ends of the Earth (2007)
An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
edited by
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Francis Spufford recommends
The Given World (2026)
Melissa Harrison
"A brilliantly acute social portrait of English rural life now. The best piece of serious fiction I've read this year. Extraordinary ... An elegy for the death of the English countryside and also a beautiful demonstration of how a piece of realist literary fiction can subtly borrow from the fantastic, weaving in threads of the mythic and the unearthly that enrich the this-worldly sense the book is making."
No Small Thing (2024)
Orlaine McDonald
"Raw and beautiful: the joys and the torments of the mother-daughter bond, cascading down three brilliantly-observed generations."
The Ministry of Time (2024)
Kaliane Bradley
"Sly and illusionless in its use of history, lovely in its sentences, warm - no, hotter than that - in its characterisation, devastating in its denouement. A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book."
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