Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors” Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.
15 Ebooks door Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn: Freya
“[A] double bildungsroman” of two British women “set against a background of political and cultural upheavals” in the direct aftermath of WWII (The New Yorker). It begi …
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Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.’I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. …
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Anthony Quinn: Rescue Man
Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city’s architectural past but the ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young pho …
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Anthony Quinn: Half of the Human Race
Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king’s coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaw …
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Anthony Quinn: Streets
From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy in Victorian London.London, 1882. David Wildeblood, an idealistic young …
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Anthony Quinn: Curtain Call
Now adapted into a major film as THE CRITIC starring Ian Mc Kellan On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room.Nina, a West End …
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Anthony Quinn: Freya
Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy …
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Anthony Quinn: Eureka
‘Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn s effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it’ Guardian Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and sw …
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Anthony Quinn: Klopp
'A love letter to the great man himself.' The Times'Immensely readable.' Observer'Delightful.' Mail on Sunday'Highly enjoyable.' Guardian'Informative and …
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Anthony Quinn: Klopp
Anthony Quinn ist begeisterter, lebenslanger Fan des FC Liverpool. Dass sein Verein 2020 die Premier League in noch nie dagewesener Art und Weise gewinnt, war der Auslöser, seinem Verein und Trainer …
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Anthony Quinn: London, Burning
London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge of collapse, a city fearful of what is t …
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George Gissing: New Grub Street
George Gissing’s best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in ’the street of no shame’. As a study in the pathology o …
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Emeric Pressburger: Glass Pearls (Faber Editions)
For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn and narrated on …
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Anthony Quinn: Molly & the Captain
‘A gripping mystery… sweeping across centuries in its three interlinked sections, Molly & the Captain summons the past effortlessly’ Observer A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two …
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