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Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, General Fiction

Series

Gertie Milk
1. Gertie Milk & the Keeper of Lost Things (2017)
2. Gertie Milk & the Great Keeper Rescue (2018)

Novels

   Everything Beautiful Began After (2011)
   The Illusion of Separateness (2013)
   Father's Day (2016)
   Night Came with Many Stars (2021)
   The Presence of Absence (2022)
   Sipsworth (2024)

Collections

   The Secret Lives of People in Love (2007)
   Love Begins in Winter (2009)
   Tales of Accidental Genius (2015)
   The Sadness of Beautiful Things (2018)

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Books containing stories by Simon Van Booy

Bio-Punk (2012)
Stories from the Far Side of Research
(Science-Into-Fiction)
edited by
Ra Page

Simon Van Booy recommends

The Voids (2022)
Ryan O'Connor
"It is rare to discover a book that is simultaneously beautiful and devastating, where characters are frightening to behold but also worthy of compassion."

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (2022)
Hannah Lillith Assadi
"A rich, mesmerizing novel, in which waves of overlapping memory erode the landscape of a woman's life until only feeling remains - both in the story and in the reader."

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (2021)
Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson
"This cleverly structured puzzle of a book is both tense intellectual thriller and elegant dystopian fantasy, blending fiction and history with terrifying clarity and haunting realism."

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