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SERIOUS THINGS
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 282 pages
Sceptre - January 24, 2008
'Structured like a thriller, SERIOUS THINGS is about…the slow death of the soul and its eventual redemption…it manages to refract LORD OF THE FLIES at times, THE SECRET HISTORY at others, even cast a glance at DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Norminton’s measured, elegant prose makes beauty and menace sing in perfect harmony…his scaling of the treacherous cliffs of the human heart will take your breath away.’ -- Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph
'Intelligent, heartbreaking, edifying, this novel displays, from the very first page on, evidence of a classic.' -- Jeanne de Menibus, Journal du Dimanche -
ARTS AND WONDERS
Fiction (Literary Fiction)
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‘Think Rose Tremain’s NIGHT AND SILENCE, with a dash of Andrew Miller’s INGENIOUS PAIN. Think a grotesque Fellini take on Renaissance Florence, with a narrator, Tomasso Grilli who tells the story of his life from an inauspicious birth through a picaresque plot that takes him on a journey reminiscent of Tom Jones or Don Quixote … A fabulous book, and Gregory Norminton is already a formidable talent.’ -- The Leeds Guide
‘In the wake of our ribald dwarf are a family of werewolves, an English alchemist, mercenaries, quacks, tarts and a circus… Its determined earthiness is balanced by Gregory Norminton’s expansive prose, his erudite wit and deft orchestration of the phantasmagoria he conjures.’ -- Times Literary Supplement
Biography
Novelist, actor, playwright, and environmental activist, born in 1976. Several short stories and dramatisations have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has completed a short story collection THE POISON TREE (Ms available, Russia: AST^). Was on the Iowa International Writers Programme, and Writer in Residence at Magdalene, Cambridge. His books are SHIP OF FOOLS (UK: Sceptre and six languages), ARTS AND WONDERS (UK: Sceptre, France: Grasset, Russia: AST, Serbia: Laguna), GHOST PORTRAIT (UK: Sceptre, France: Grasset, Russia: AST) and SERIOUS THINGS (UK: Sceptre, France: Grasset, Romania: RAO) . He now lives in Edinburgh.
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