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James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict. Stripping the wallpaper from one of the rooms, James discovers the first chapter of Confessions of a Killer, a nineteenth-century thriller, which seems to offer clues to a tragedy that took place in the house many years before, and one to which James feel inexorably linked. A journey into a mysterious world of fiction and reality, The Amnesiac is a compelling novel by one of Britain''s most innovative young storytellers.

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"'The Amnesiac is an original, derivative, exasperating, tender triumph... it announces his arrival as one to watch.' Daily Telegraph"

The Princess and the Pea Well loved tales grade 1

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 03/04/2008
      ISBN13: 9780571233540, 978-0571233540
      ISBN10: 0571233546

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict. Stripping the wallpaper from one of the rooms, James discovers the first chapter of Confessions of a Killer, a nineteenth-century thriller, which seems to offer clues to a tragedy that took place in the house many years before, and one to which James feel inexorably linked. A journey into a mysterious world of fiction and reality, The Amnesiac is a compelling novel by one of Britain''s most innovative young storytellers.

      Trade Review
      "'The Amnesiac is an original, derivative, exasperating, tender triumph... it announces his arrival as one to watch.' Daily Telegraph"

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