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Darkmans

Paperback • 2008 • English

Darkmans

By Nicola Barker

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About the book

Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose favourite skit was to burn people alive? Or could it be Andrew Boarde, physician to Henry VIII, who wrote John Scogin's biography? Or could it be a Kurd called Gaffar whose days are blighted by an uns...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780007193639

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Darkmans

Format

Paperback

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