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Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has seen him shift gradually from non-fiction to fiction. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for a first novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Career He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987–1990 for Chatto & Windus. Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007, and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there. In 2018 he was made a professor. Spufford specialized in non-fiction for the first part of his career, but began a transition towards fiction in 2010. In 2016 he for the first time published a book which could indisputably be classified as a novel. Published Work I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, 1996 – won literary prizes including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the Somerset Maugham Award in 1997. The Child That Books Built, 2002 Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin, 2003 – nominated for the Aventis Prize Red Plenty, 2010 – longlisted for the Orwell Prize, and translated into Dutch, Spanish, Estonian, Polish, German, Russian and Italian, with versions in French and Turkish following. This is a fusion of history and fiction which dramatises the period in the history of the USSR (c.1960) when the possibility of creating greater abundance than capitalism seemed near. It is influenced by science fiction, and uses many of its tools, but is not itself science fiction. Unapologetic, 2012, translated into Dutch as Dit is Geen Verdediging, 2013, into Spanish as Impenitente and German as Heilige (Un)Vernunft!, 2014. Golden Hill, 2016 – won the Costa Book Award for a first novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the New York City Book Award of the New York Society Library, and the Ondaatje Prize. The novel was also shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. True Stories and Other Essays, 2017 Light Perpetual, 2021, with translations into German, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Catalan, Russian and Arabic to follow – longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Cahokia Jazz, 2023 (American edition due 2024) Spufford has also edited three anthologies: The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings (1989) (about lists used as a literary device), The Chatto Book of the Devil (1992), and The Antarctic (2008). In March 2019, it was reported that Spufford had written an unofficial novel, The Stone Table, set in the universe of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series. This takes place during a gap in fictional fiction between The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Spufford distributed self-printed copies to friends. The novel was praised as a "seamless recreation of Lewis’s writing-style". The author hoped to obtain permission from the C. S. Lewis estate to publish it commercially. In the absence of permission, the earliest publication date would be 2034, seventy years after Lewis’s death, when the copyright on the original books will expire in the UK. Personal life Spufford was born in 1964. He is the son of social historian Margaret Spufford (1935–2014) and economic historian Professor Peter Spufford (1934–2017). He studied English literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985. Spufford lives just outside Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a practising Christian and is married to an Anglican priest, the Reverend Dr Jessica Martin, who is a Residentiary Canon of Ely Cathedral. He served from 2015 to 2021 on General Synod as a lay representative of the Diocese of Ely. References External links Tumblr for Unapologetic Tumblr for "Golden Hill" Ebook of critical essays on Red Plenty . Discover the Francis Spufford popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Francis Spufford books.
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Golden Hill
Francis SpuffordA Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Kirkus Re...
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Minds of Winter
Ed O'LoughlinLonglisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Ras...
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The Villain
Jim PerrinDon Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epochmaking first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the...
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The Warden
Anthony TrollopeThe first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public and private. ...
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Trouble in My Head
Mathilde Monaque & Lorenza GarciaMathilde Monaque developed severe depression when she was just 14. The eldest in a family of six and an exceptionally bright and gifted little girl, the discovery shook her family ...
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The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories
Joost Zwagerman'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, ...
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Scars that Run Deep
Patrick TouherLeaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over. But the adult world was a dangerous place for a naïve adolescent. F...
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On Tangled Paths
Theodor Fontane & Peter James BowmanA moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenthcentury novelist Theodor Fontane.Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress,...
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Out In The Midday Sun
Elspeth HuxleyElspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume ...
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Jack The Ripper and the East End
Various Artists & Alex WernerIn 1888, Whitechapel at the heart of the inner East End was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets an...
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Thoughts For The Day
Charles HandyCharles Handy may well be Britain's only worldclass management guru (Director Magazine) but his thoughts about organisations and the role of the individual involve thoughts beyond ...
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Call Upon the Water
Stella TillyardThis “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17thcentury Great Britain and ...
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So Much To Tell
Valerie GroveKaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her childlike enthusi...
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The Mango Orchard
Robin BayleyAs a child, Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmother's stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver and a narrow escape from the bloo...
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The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov & Ronald WilksThis collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, is the unforgettable ...
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A Passion For Trees
Maggie Campbell-CulverGiven the extent of his influence on 17thcentury life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn. He w...
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Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto & Barbara ReynoldsOne of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conf...
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The Wee Book of Calvin
Bill DuncanA collection of essays and aphorisms about Scottish Calvinism. This is Scottish literary humour at its finest.'A work of contemporary shamanism, with all the bluff, poetry, derange...
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The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse
Penguin Books Ltd'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse...
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The Psychology of Awakening
Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor & Guy ClaxtonThe Buddhist view of the mind how it works, how it goes wrong, how to put it right is increasingly being recognised as profound and highly practical by scientists, counsellors an...
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Imaginings Of Sand
André BrinkTHE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathb...
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The Invention of Childhood
Hugh CunninghamThe Invention of Childhood will paint a vivid picture of the lives of children in Britain from pagan AngloSaxon times to the present day. Drawing heavily on primary sources, suc...
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The Penguin History of the Church
Alec VidlerThe French Revolution dealt a fatal blow to the alliance of Church and State. The Christian church had to adapt to great changes from the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolu...
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Days of Reading
Marcel Proust & John SturrockIn these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the ...
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The Great Monster Joke Book
Amanda LiWhat sort of jokes do werewolves like best?Howlers!What's worse than being surrounded by huge great scary monsters? Being surrounded by AWFUL JOKES ABOUT MONSTERS! Think you can st...
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Romain Gary
David BellosAirman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he als...
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George VI
Philip ZieglerWritten by Philip Ziegler, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, George VI is part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a co...
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Emigrants
James Evans'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eyeopening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a ...
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Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto & Barbara ReynoldsA dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.
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The Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm with the Proslogion
AnselmMostly written between 1070 and 1080, before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, the prayers and meditations of Anselm of Aosta created a tradition of intimate, intensely personal ...
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Rituals For An Enchanted Life
Lynn WilliamsMany people are searching for ways to bring richness and meaning back into their lives. Rituals provide powerful tools for doing this, and for facilitating personal transformation ...
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Little Angels
Phra Peter PannapadipoThe reallife stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illitera...
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All My Lies
Sophie Flynn'Perfectly paced, suspenseful and gripping a real pageturner' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of Haven't They Grown 'A rollercoaster ride with a cast of flawed characters an exce...
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Riceyman Steps
Arnold BennettIn the work that has been judged the finest of his later novels, (printed here in Bennett's corrected version) Arnold Bennett gives us an unfogettable portrait of a miser and his w...
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Phra Farang
Phra Peter PannapadipoAt fortyfive, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as...
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Seasons of the Day
Stanislaus KennedyBased on the traditional Book of Hours psalms said daily, at set times, by religious communities throughout the world Seasons of the Day reveals the enduring relevance of this an...
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Selected Writings
Meister EckhartComposed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 12601327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achiev...
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The Shroud
Ian WilsonTwo decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brandnew historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary pho...
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Gainsborough
James HamiltonSelected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer 'Compulsively readable the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very ...
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Still
Adam Thorpe' outwardly the unfilmable script of a wouldbe English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his ...