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Golden Hill: 'Best book of the century' Richard Osman

Francis Spufford

'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman
'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris
'A marvel.' Zadie Smith
'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah Perry

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize


A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVELS 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 . . .

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 29, 2016
  • Imprint : Faber Fiction
  • Page Extent : 352
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780571225200
  • Price : INR 999
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Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is the author of I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploration, The Child that Books Built and Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year prize, and the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year. He lives in Cambridge.

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