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Gerard Woodward

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Gerard Woodward (born 1961) is a British novelist, poet and short story writer, best known for his trilogy of novels concerning the troubled Jones family, the second of which, I'll Go To Bed at Noon, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man-Booker Prize.[1] He was born in London and briefly studied painting at Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall. He later attended the London School of Economics, where he studied Social Anthropology, and Manchester University, where he studied for an MA in the same subject. In 1989 he won a major Eric Gregory Award for poets under thirty and his first collection of poetry, Householder, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1991. His first novel, August, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. In 2011 he was writer in re ...more

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I'll Go to Bed at Noon (The...

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Nourishment

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August (The Jones Trilogy, #1)

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The Paper Lovers

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A Curious Earth (The Jones ...

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Vanishing

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Legoland

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Caravan Thieves

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The Seacunny

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We Were Pedestrians

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“Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.”
Gerard Woodward, Nourishment

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Meetings With Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff
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Right around the turn of the 20th century, G.I. Gurdjieff initiated a group of spiritual adventurers called the "Seekers of Truth". These intrepid intellectuals of every stripe criss-crossed Africa and Asia in search of the hidden mysteries of antiquity. In Meetings with Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff narrates their exploits while drawing portraits of these extraordinary figure....
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To the Heart of the Nile Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa by Pat Shipman
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In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szasz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by compassion and an immediate, overpowering empathy for the young woman, and braved extraordinary perils to help her escape
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August by Gerard Woodward
by Gerard Woodward
It has become a tradition for Aldous Jones to take his family camping in Wales, and he has started to feel that a certain symbiosis has developed between their North London home and the Welsh village that they only ever see in August. However, as the years pass, Aldous's family idyll starts to disintegrate and the farm becomes a place drenched in memory.
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“Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.”
Gerard Woodward, Nourishment

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