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Backroom Boys
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists... more...
Red Plenty
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11What if the Soviet 'miracle' had worked, and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness...? more...
The Child that Books Built
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 11.65Fairy tales and Where the Wild Things Are, The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books, Little House on the Prairie and The Earthsea Trilogy. What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this widely celebrated memoir of a boy who retreats into books,... more...
I May Be Some Time
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the British imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Everyone remembers the last words of Scott's companion Captain Oates - 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time' - and history is what... more...
Red Plenty
Graywolf Press 2012; US$ 15.99?Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous.? ?The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called ?the planned economy,? which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of... more...
Unapologetic
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 11.65But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable , drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the bits of our lives... more...
Unapologetic
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 15.99Unapologetic by Francis Spufford has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. more...
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