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English Monsters by James Scudamore
Category: Fiction
'James Scudamore is now a force in the English novel' Hilary MantelWhen ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the magical freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of unfathomable rules and arbitrary punishment awaits. But so too does the c ...Show more
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Born in a Sao Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his control, he first leaves and then returns to the vast city of his birth - but on the opposite side of its social divide. Now twenty-seven, he works for a va ...Show more
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Category: Fiction
As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo for a vacuous 'communications company'. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riche ...Show more
Wreaking by James Scudamore
Category: Fiction
This is a brilliantly dark and unsettling novel from the author of the Booker longlisted Heliopolis and one of the UK's most talented young writers. Perilously ill, Jasper Scriven spends his days roaming the wards of a derelict psychiatric hospital on England's southeast coast. His daughter Cleo works i ...Show more
Wreaking by James Scudamore
Category: Fiction
Perilously ill, Jasper Scriven spends his days roaming the wards of a derelict psychiatric hospital on England's southeast coast. His daughter Cleo works in London as a news editor, making palatable stories of the world's events and trying to stay one step ahead of her demons. Meanwhile, she is watched ...Show more
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