My Animals and Other Family
$35.87
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2007
Summary
A treat for Christmas, a delightful little book of stories by one of Britain’s most original writers.
In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.
First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via Harrods pet department. He slept in an old cap on the back of the door, and could leap about the room via the pict…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224082341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224082345 |
| Author: | Julia Blackburn |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2007 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 186mm x 134mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
- Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize.
- Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize.
- Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography.
- The Three of Us won the J.R. Ackerley Award.
Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize.
She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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