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Paul Pickering is the author of seven novels, Wild About Harry, Perfect English, The Blue Gate of Babylon, Charlie Peace, The Leopard’s Wife, Over the Rainbow and Elephant. The Blue Gate of Babylon was a New York Times notable book of the year, who dubbed it ‘superior literature’. Often compared to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, Pickering was chosen as one of the top ten young British novelists by bookseller WH Smith and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize three times. Educated at the Royal Masonic Schools and the University of Leicester, he has a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, presented his doctoral thesis to the Bulgakov Society in Moscow, recently completed a Hawthornden Fellowship Residency on Lake Como and is ...more

Average rating: 3.32 · 158 ratings · 33 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Leopard's Wife: A Novel

3.05 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Over the Rainbow

3.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Blue Gate of Babylon

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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Elephant

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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Wild About Harry

3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Perfect English

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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Charlie Peace: A Fable

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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