Search results for ""Author Andrew Cowan""
Salt Publishing Your Fault
Metro: Best Fiction of 2019Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019‘Elegant, unsparing, meticulously detailed novel in which a conscientious boy grows up with bedeviled parents. Where do men come from? They come from boys. Look again.’ —Margaret Atwood‘A small masterpiece’ —Phil Baker, The Sunday Times‘A terse, bitterly poignant novel about guilt and the art of retrospection’ —Claire Allfree, Daily Mail‘If clarity of recollection is an art, Andrew Cowan is a master.’ —Jane Graham, Big IssueSet in a 1960s English new town, Your Fault charts one boy’s childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter’s story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimism and futurism of the 1960s, and to reveal how that utopianism fares as it emerges into the Seventies. It’s an untold story of British working class experience, written with extraordinary precision and tenderness.
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UEA Publishing Project Underworld: The UEA Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology 2014
The first in a new line of anthologies of undergraduate writing from the University of East Anglia, a university renowned the world over for its creative writing programme.Inside these covers a remarkable range of work by forty-six writers of prose and poetry awaits discovery. There are dreams and nightmares, facts and theories, experiments and routines, couplings and separations, confessions and concealings, bodies and minds, umbrellas and football boots, lovers and strangers, arrivals and departures, fantasies and realities, rooms and rivers, whole landscapes in beans and beans in whole landscapes. One way or another, however you choose, it is time to enter the Underworld…"Underworld displays the extraordinary range, style and inventiveness of our undergraduate community of writers. There is a great deal to showcase and celebrate."- Andrew Cowan
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Hodder & Stoughton Pig
When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of a blighted new town, Danny and his Indian girlfriend Surinder create a fragile haven from the enclosing world of racist neighbours and stifling families, a summer's refuge from the precariousness of their future.
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Hodder & Stoughton What I Know
On the morning of his fortieth birthday, Mike Hannah wakes from a dream about the girl he loved twenty years earlier. Once an aspiring writer, he is now a private detective whose work and marriage have become routine, and he begins to wonder what might have been. Which leads him to wondering where his ex-girlfriend is now, and whether other people's lives are more exciting than his. Which leads him to spying on his own family, friends and neighbours. Which leads to some very unwelcome surprises...
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