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Guy Burt
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The Hole
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1993
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Sophie
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2003
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A Clock Without Hands
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2000
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The Glass Field
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The Glass Field
My new novel, The Glass Field, is published today. It’s my first novel in 27 years. Screenwriting has kept me busy, but in my heart I've always been a novelist; returning to all the things novels can do has been a genuine delight.
In the book, two damaged teenagers are drawn together by their shared belief that nuclear war is inevitable. It’s 1986, Cold War paranoia is running high, and they’re bot Read more of this blog post »
In the book, two damaged teenagers are drawn together by their shared belief that nuclear war is inevitable. It’s 1986, Cold War paranoia is running high, and they’re bot Read more of this blog post »
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"I received this book to give an review. It's not my normal choice of book. However, it was very thought provoking. I was in my teens so revisiting the 80's was somewhat bizarre but nostalgic. These teens are very intense and have experienced emotiona"
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"This is a comining of age book following 2 teenagers.
Set in the 1980s you meet Jodie and Scott that are frightened the world will end in a nuclear war. They both share a bond and fears about a nuclear attack you hear about them both through there POVs" Read more of this review » |
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"This read was exactly as it said, an intimate, quietly unsettling novel, covering grief, love, friendship and fear. Whilst set in 1986 post Chernobyl and during the Cold War, the themes in this book around the ease of destruction and fear of nuclear "
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"In some ways a difficult read. Beautifully evoked one summer in the 1980s."
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| I'm hugely grateful to everyone who's reviewed this, my third novel: thank you! Of the three books I wrote back in the 1990s, this is by far my favourite. While The Hole and Sophie are both psychological thrillers, The Dandelion Clock (or A Clock Wit ...more | |
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A quick note to say that if you enjoyed Sophie, and would like to know what I'm up to now, my latest novel The Glass Field is available now. It's been a long time coming, but I'm quietly delighted to be writing novels again. – Guy Burt, Valencia, 2026 ...more |
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| Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed my very first novel! It feels like a lifetime ago that I was writing this: I was in my gap year before university and had got a teaching job for the year in a school in Devon. One of my duties was overseeing ...more | |
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“Somewhere out there is a girl-shaped, girl-sized hole in the world into which she would fit perfectly. Snug and neat. Click. If she can find it, things will start to make sense again.”
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“If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes."
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“Somewhere out there is a girl-shaped, girl-sized hole in the world into which she would fit perfectly. Snug and neat. Click. If she can find it, things will start to make sense again.”
― The Glass Field
― The Glass Field
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“Somewhere out there is a girl-shaped, girl-sized hole in the world into which she would fit perfectly. Snug and neat. Click. If she can find it, things will start to make sense again.”
― The Glass Field
― The Glass Field
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