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Havergey - by John Burnside (Hardcover)

Havergey - by  John Burnside (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this new novella, an award-winning poet and novelist brings his unique sensibility to the idea of utopia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Havergey</i> is the first work of fiction from Little Toller. A few years from now on the small and remote island of Havergey, a community of survivors from a great human catastrophe has created new lives and a new world in a landscape renewed after millennia of human exploitation. In this new novella, an award-winning poet and novelist brings his unique sensibility to the idea of utopia. A timely reminder about how precious and precarious our world is, it's also a rejection of the idea of human supremacy over landscape and wildlife.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John Burnside is a poet, novelist, journalist and former software engineer. He is the author of Burning Elvis, Glister and A Summer of Drowning. His memoir A Lie About My Father won many awards including the Saltaire Prize for Scottish Book of the Year. His poetry includes The Asylum Dance, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and Feast Days, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize. He writes a nature column for The New Statesman.<br>norman ackroyd is an acclaimed artist, famed for his acquatint landscape works, and his large scale works for architectural projects around the world.

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