It follows the fortunes of a 17th-century Levant Company merchant, Paul Pindar and his love, Celia Lamprey. My latest book is The House at Bishopsgate, the third and concluding volume in my Aviary Gate series (although it reads as a stand-alone story). I have read and re-read it more times than I can remember, from my earliest teenage years until now. Like all classics, it reveals something new and surprising every time you open its pages, but it also has a rip-roaring plot and is very, very funny. The perfect novel. Which book would you give to your closest friend, and why? If his book had been required reading before the US election last November, we might not have been quite so surprised by Trump’s victory. Interstate recounts a journey across the crumbling hinterland of the American mid-West. Sayarer’s "voice" is fresh, uncompromising and modern-a huge talent to watch out for in the future. I was recently a judge on the Dolman-Stanford’s Best Travel Book Award, and this unknown young English writer was the unanimous choice of all six judges on the panel, even beating that famous heavy-weight, Paul Theroux, across the finishing line. Julian Sayarer’s Interstate: Hitchhiking through the State of a Nation (Arcadia Books, 2016). What’s currently on your bedside table and why? Her latest novel, The House at Bishopsgate, was published earlier this month. Her novels The Aviary Gate and The Pindar Diamond have been translated into 19 languages. Urn:oclc:865156717 Republisher_date 20170706145614 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 686 Scandate 20170705175656 Scanner Hickman is the author of seven books, including two bestselling history titles, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia. Urn:lcp:daughtersofbrita00hick:epub:8e0cb107-9616-4e28-a9de-8d4cbebb1a05 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier daughtersofbrita00hick Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t70w2gx1t Invoice 1315 Isbn 9780060188627Ġ060188626 Lccn 2001273716 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary O元967698M Openlibrary_edition
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