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Nicholas Shakespeare


UK flag (b.1957)

Nicholas Shakespare is the author of The Vision of Elena Silvers(1989), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, The High Flyer, for which he was nominated for the Grants list in 1993 and The Dancer upstairs which was chosen by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997. In 1999 his biography, Bruce Chatwin was published to great critical acclaim.
 

Genres: Thriller, General Fiction
 
Novels
   The Vision of Elena Silves (1989)
   The High Flyer (1993)
   The Dancer Upstairs (1995)
   Snowleg (2004)
   The Secrets of the Sea (2007)
   Inheritance (2010)
   The Sandpit (2020)
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Collections
   Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with others)
   Stories from Other Places (2015)
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Non fiction show
 
Nicholas Shakespeare recommends
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The Loss Adjustor (2010)
Aifric Campbell
"Sexy, sad, riven with longing. The Loss Adjustor confirms a talent of unusual promise."
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The Virago Book of Love Letters (1994)
Jill Dawson
"The letters which catch the reader's heart are those framed by the drama of an impossible or illicit passion."

Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1990) : The Vision of Elena Silves
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2004) : Snowleg


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