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Francis Spufford



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.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
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Novels
   Light Perpetual (2021)
   Cahokia Jazz (2023)
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Collections
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Anthologies edited
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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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The Midnight News (2023)
Jo Baker
"Deep and dark and wonderful: a marvel of storytelling wrested from the black night of the twentieth century. Your heart will be in your mouth as you read."
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The Whalebone Theatre (2022)
Joanna Quinn
"The circus playfulness of the language, the old story of the great house dazzlingly refreshed, the kind heart and the witty eye, the deep understanding of a girl's need to be the hero of her own life--this is a book that will be loved unreasonably and life-long, I believe, like I Capture The Castle."

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Awards
Costa Book Awards Best First Novel winner (2016) : Golden Hill
Desmond Elliott Prize Best Book winner (2017) : Golden Hill
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book nominee (2017) : Golden Hill
Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2017) : Golden Hill
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2021) : Light Perpetual


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