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Nicholas Shakespeare


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Nicholas Shakespare is the author of The Vision of Elena Silvers(1989), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, The High Flyer, for which he was nominated for the Grants list in 1993 and The Dancer upstairs which was chosen by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997. In 1999 his biography, Bruce Chatwin was published to great critical acclaim.
 


Genres: Thriller, General Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Vision of Elena Silves (1989)
   The High Flyer (1993)
   The Dancer Upstairs (1995)
   Snowleg (2004)
   The Secrets of the Sea (2007)
   Inheritance (2010)
   The Sandpit (2020)
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Collections
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Series contributed to
Ox-Tales
   Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with others)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2004 Booker Prize (longlist) : Snowleg
1990 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : The Vision of Elena Silves


Nicholas Shakespeare recommends
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The Loss Adjustor (2010)
Aifric Campbell
"Sexy, sad, riven with longing. The Loss Adjustor confirms a talent of unusual promise."
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The Virago Book of Love Letters (1994)
Jill Dawson
"The letters which catch the reader's heart are those framed by the drama of an impossible or illicit passion."

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