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Henry Shukman's first book of fiction, Darien Dogs, was published in 2004 to great acclaim. Having won the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 2000, his first collection of poetry, In Doctor No's Garden, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Masterfully portrays the desolate entities across which his characters move... Ambitious: read with the care it merits, it guides us towards a clearer and more accomodating view of the world * Guardian * Shukman has Graham Greene's gift for capturing the essence of the exotic locations by using an individual, melancholy style... Consistently moving -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph * Shukman's prose is utterly seductive * Literary Review * Shukman is superb, like Conrad on speed -- Giles Foden Wonderfully evocative... A gripping, melancholy and intelligent book about the failures of romanticism, about personal responsibility, and about the wrong choices * Sunday Times *
