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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)
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)
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)
Love Begins in Winter (2009)
Tales of Accidental Genius (2015)
The Sadness of Beautiful Things (2018)
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Simon Van Booy recommends
The Bright Years (2025)
Sarah Damoff
"Like all great books, THE BRIGHT YEARS will leave you with deep feelings of compassion and insight for the inevitable love and suffering we must all go through in order to fully live."
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."
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