Described by Richard Osman as ‘the best book of the century’, Golden Hill was first published in 2016 and won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year.
Loved for its evocation of New York in its infancy, Golden Hill cemented Francis Spufford as a brilliant writer of historical fiction, which he has gone on to develop with counterfactual evocations of a wartime London Blitz bombing in Light Perpetual and a city that never was in an America that never was in Cahokia Jazz.
The new Members Edition of Golden Hill is published on 12 September 2024.
Francis will be in conversation with Rebecca Watson, part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer’s ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her explosive and virtuosic debut novel, little scratch, was published by Faber in 2022. Her second, I Will Crash, was published in July, 2024.
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Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the 2022 Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, Cahokia Jazz, was published in 2023. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Francis Spufford
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