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Simon Mawer is author of eight novels and two non fiction books. His latest novel, The Glass Room, published by Little, Brown in January 2009, was on the Man Booker shortlist. The next one, entitled The Girl Who Fell From The Sky for the UK market, and Trapeze in the US, is signed, sealed and delivered. To be published in May 2012 in the UK and US. Watch this space..."Simon Mawer's work is rich with a desire
to see through to the core of things."
Current Titles:The Girl Who fell From The Sky, entitled Trapeze in the US, published in May 2012Published by Little, Brown in UK and Other Press in US "...utterly gripping from start to finish" Daily Mail. "...I cannot fault his story-telling; I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done." Guardian "I have rarely read a novel that made fear so acute, almost tangible... I was gripped." The Scotsman "...a terse, gripping thriller that is faultlessly written..." Independent on Sunday Mendel's Dwarf - in the last 10 for the Booker Prize in 1998Now reissued by Abacus Books (July 2011) The Glass Room - Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Wingate Prizepublished in January 2009 by Little, Brown. "...Mawer’s control of his themes of language, desire, memory and the power of place is extraordinary..." The Daily Telegraph. "...a thing of extraordinary beauty and symmetry." The Guardian Read reviews of The Glass Room here. Watch an interview and reading from the book here. Previous Titles include:
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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, May 2012
Trapeze, May 2012 "Mawer’s control of his themes of language, desire, memory and the power of place is extraordinary." Daily Telegraph on The Glass Room. "Here we have another gifted British writer of idea-driven fiction, deserving of mention alongside Iris Murdoch, William Boyd, and Michael Frayn." Atlantic Monthly "Mawer is a writer of remarkable gifts." The Scotsman "...a breathtakingly subtle literary style
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