The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
by Tremain, Rose
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1860560326
- ISBN 13
- 9781860560323
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
the Sorbonne and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia, where she went on to teach creative writing between 1988 and 1995. Her first novel, Sadler's Birthday , was published in 1976 and Granta selected her as one of its 'Best of Young British Novelists' in 1983. She has gone on to become a prolific writer of fiction -- including drama and short stories broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 -- and is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Novel Award, which she won in 1999 for Music and Silence , and the Dylan Thomas Short Story Award. Her novel Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a film in 1996. She is currently working on her next novel, The Road Home , the story of Lev, an Eastern European immigrant struggling to make his way in London, due to be published by Chatto and Windus in 2007. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.
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- Bookseller
- JKMayotte (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11222143
- Title
- The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
- Author
- Tremain, Rose
- Format/Binding
- Dark blue boards w gilt titles
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860560326
- ISBN 13
- 9781860560323
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 215
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Darkness of Wallis Simpson, Rose Tremain
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction /short stories (single author);
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JKMayotte
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