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Anthony Gardner

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Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth

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Anthony Gardner spent his early life between in England and Ireland, but has lived in London for most of his adult life. As soon as he started reading books, he wanted to write them - but, realising that this would be a difficult way to earn a living, he embarked on a career in journalism, with his weekends set aside for what he regarded as his real writing. As a magazine journalist he has been deputy editor of Harpers & Queen and editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, and has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, the Irish Times Magazine and Architectural Digest among many others. His first novel, The Rivers of Heaven, was partly inspired by Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, and involves a newborn child remembering its existence be ...more

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A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot

Japrisot's novel begins at the Battle of the Somme in January 1917: five French soldiers are convicted of mutilating themselves to escape active service, but rather than take responsibility for shooting them, their superiors have them pushed into no-man's land to take their chances. Five bodies are later recovered, and the soldiers' relatives are informed that they have been killed in action.
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