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Titles in This Set
Unapologetic
Light Perpetual
Golden Hill
Red Plenty
Details
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
ISBN (Unapologetic): 9780571225224
ISBN (Light Perpetual): 9780571336494
ISBN (Golden Hill): 9780571225200
ISBN (Red Plenty): 9780571225248
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Age Range: Adult
Overview
This four-book paperback collection brings together the celebrated fiction and non-fiction of Francis Spufford, one of Britain's most versatile literary voices. Spanning historical adventure, alternate-history heartbreak, Soviet-era ambition and a spirited defence of faith, the set showcases the astonishing range of a writer equally at home in invention and argument. It's an ideal introduction for new readers and a satisfying addition for existing fans, gathering award-winning, critically acclaimed titles into one covetable collection for the home library or as a thoughtful literary gift.
About the Books
Unapologetic is Spufford's brief, witty, personal defence of Christian belief, arguing not that Christianity is factually true but that it is emotionally recognisable, offering a refreshingly honest account of faith in the twenty-first century. Light Perpetual, longlisted for the Booker Prize, opens with a German rocket striking wartime London and imagines the lives five children might have lived had that single moment never happened — a moving meditation on memory, chance and the preciousness of ordinary life. Golden Hill, Spufford's Costa Award-winning debut novel, drops a mysterious stranger into 1746 New York with a suspiciously large fortune to claim, delivering a dazzling, plot-twisting homage to the picaresque novel. Red Plenty blends fiction and history to imagine the hopeful, strange moment when the Soviet Union's planned economy seemed destined to out-perform capitalism, told through scientists, planners and dreamers caught up in Khrushchev's brief utopian promise. Together the four books trace Spufford's journey from acclaimed essayist to award-winning novelist, each retaining his hallmark wit, precision and emotional intelligence.
About the Author
Francis Spufford is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He began his career writing acclaimed non-fiction, including I May Be Some Time and Unapologetic, before turning to the novel with Red Plenty and his Costa Award-winning debut, Golden Hill. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Known for his elegant prose and formal inventiveness, Spufford moves fluently between fact and fiction, history and imagination.
Why You'll Love This Collection
Four distinctive, prize-recognised works in one paperback set — a rich, varied introduction to a writer whose curiosity ranges from Soviet economics to eighteenth-century New York, wartime London and modern faith.
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