Death of a Foreign Gentleman: The intriguing new literary crime novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author for readers of Ian McEwan, Sebastian Barry and William Boyd
The intriguing new literary crime novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author for readers of Ian McEwan, Sebastian Barry and William Boyd
$26.67
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2024
Summary
From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter.
Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens, stands over th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460764589 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1460764587 |
| Author: | Steven Carroll |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 154mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Stephen Minter |
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Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of sixteen novels, including A World of Other People (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and The Time We Have Taken (2007), which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. The Art of the Engine Driver was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina literary award for Best Foreign Novel in 2005. Forever Young (2015) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2016. A New England Affair (2017) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 2018 and The Year of the Beast (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight was longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize and for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. His previous novel, Death of a Foreign Gentleman (2024), was the first in a series of postwar literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.
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