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2017 British Book Award Debut Book of the Year (shortlist)
2017 Desmond Elliott Prize
2017 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee)
2017 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee)
2016 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel
'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman
'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris
'A marvel.' Zadie Smith
'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah Perry
ORDER NONESUCH, THE NEW NOVEL FROM FRANCIS SPUFFORD, NOW
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
OVER 100k COPIES SOLD
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
'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris
'A marvel.' Zadie Smith
'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah Perry
ORDER NONESUCH, THE NEW NOVEL FROM FRANCIS SPUFFORD, NOW
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
OVER 100k COPIES SOLD
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
"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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