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Golden Hill

(2016)
(A book in the Old New York series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Desmond Elliott Prize Best Book
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book (nominee)
Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel (nominee)
Costa Book Awards Best First Novel
** Includes the first chapter of the hugely anticipated new novel by Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz. **


Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2016

Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017

Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017


Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition -- he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble . . .
Genre: Historical

Praise for this book

"Addictively readable." - Mark Haddon

"Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature." - Nick Hornby

"Golden Hill is a meticulously crafted and brilliantly written novel that is both an affectionate homage to the 18th century novel and a taut and thoughtful tale." - Iain Pears

"Quite marvellous. A vivid re-creation of colonial New York, in which the adventures of Mr Smith, who may be a charlatan or a hero, make for a page turner, with an unexpected and unusually satisfying ending." - C J Sansom


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