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Simon Mawer is author of eleven novels and two non fiction books. The Glass Room, published by Little, Brown in January 2009, was on the Man Booker shortlist. His new novel is entitled Prague Spring. The UK hardback and the e-book are due out on 2 August. The US edition will be published in October 2018. "Mawer
is a genuinely great contemporary writer."
Current Titles:PRAGUE SPRING is out in the UK (published on 2nd August by Little, Brown)."Superbly written, poignant and polished, this story will haunt you" The Sunday Mirror "as good as anything Simon Mawer has written; which means it is very good indeed." Allan Massie in the Scotsman The Glass Room FilmThe filming of The Glass Room took place during the first six months of 2018. Directed by Julius Ševcík and produced by Rudolf Biermann of InFilm Praha, it will star, amongst others, Carice van Houten. Here's Variety's announcement of the forthcoming production.
Tightrope, winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2016, is the postwar story of Marian Sutro, protagonist of The Girl Who Fell From The Sky. Both books are published by Little, Brown in UK and Other Press in US "...a sophisticated, deviously constructed story..." Nick Rennison, writing in the Sunday Times. "Tightrope is gripping stuff, with a sinuous plot and some haunting bedroom scenes." Mail on Sunday. "Mawer blows the dust off the history and makes it matter as you read." Allan Massie in The Scotsman. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky - the story of Marian Sutro's wartime experience with the Resistance in France. "...I cannot fault his story-telling; I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done." Guardian 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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