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Golden Hill

Francis Spufford

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English
Faber & Faber
23 November 2016
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 . . .

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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   278g
ISBN:   9780571225200
ISBN 10:   0571225209
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   http://www.unapologetic-book.tumblr.com/

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.

  • Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2017
  • Short-listed for Folio Prize 2017
  • Short-listed for Folio Prize 2017 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017
  • Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2016.
  • Shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize 2017.
  • Shortlisted for Ondaatje Prize 2017.
  • Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.
  • Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2016.
  • Winner of Ondaatje Prize 2017.

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