Tag: Novel

In ReviewIn a courageous work of fiction, Spufford chooses 5 diminutive one victims of a right WWII bombing and provides them full lives You “can no longer second-guess” Francis Spufford, mentioned Kate Kellaway in The Observer. After making his name as an “tremendous author of non-fiction”, in his early 50s he published his first novel, Golden Hill – a work of “exuberant virtuosity” about an English chancer in 18th century Manhattan. Five years later, he has produced every other “shiny” work of fiction – and one which, if the leisure, is “even bolder”.Gentle Perpetual begins in November 1944, with a V2 bomb falling on a south London branch of Woolworths, mentioned Claire Allfree in the London Night Long-established. This match became once right – it killed 168 contributors – but in a “...