FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five highly-praised works of non-fiction which are most frequently described by reviewers as either ‘bizarre’ or ‘brilliant’, and usually as both. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel Golden Hill, which won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for four others. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, the alternative history Cahokia Jazz, was recognised by the Science Fiction community when it was awarded the Sidewise Award in 2023.
From the Cahokia Jazz author comes Nonesuch, a richly imagined thrill-ride of a novel set in the London of 1939, as an ambitious young woman working in the City crosses paths with a technical whizz who leads her into a strange world of time beds, spirits and the twisted passages between past and present.
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‘What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and an enormous heart.’
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
‘One of the finest prose stylists of his generation.’
The Times