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Simon Mawer is author of ten novels and two non fiction books. The Glass Room, published by Little, Brown in January 2009, was on the Man Booker shortlist. His current novel is entitled Tightrope. The UK paperback and the e-book are out now. The US edition was published in November 2015. "Mawer
is a genuinely great contemporary writer."
Current Titles:TIGHROPE is out in the UK, published by Little, Brown. Paperback, Abacus Book. The US edition is published by Other Press.
WALTER SCOTT PRIZE for historical
Tightrope 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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