James Hamilton-Paterson

• Sep-1990
• / Literary
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• Nov-1994
• / General Fiction
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A wasteland city whose factory processes the skeletons of derelicts harbors four people--a television journalist, an archaeologist, an embattled and poor Filipina, and a corrupt cop--who reflect unresolved pasts...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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Griefwork , James Hamilton-Paterson's third novel, was first published in 1993. 'This book had its genesis in a vivid dream about a Holland-like landscape of dykes which caused me to catch the next plane to Amsterdam. The story is set in the tropical...

• May-2000
• / Action Adventure
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Somewhere on the seabed of the Atlanctic ocean lie two casualties of the Second World War: a Japanese submarine, the I-52 and the liner SS Aurelia. Separated by almost a thousand miles of ocean and sunk more than fifteen months apart, these two vesse...

• Sep-2005
• / Literary
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Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he wiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions -- including ice cream made with garlic and the bi...

• Nov-2006
• / Literary
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"The fun is in Hamilton-Paterson's offhand observations and delicate touch in handling his two unreliable misfits as they find each other--and there's lots of it." -- Publishers Weekly

Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, th...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction
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Book three in the ?Gerald Samper? series "(Cooking with Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace)" When we last saw our hero he had taken to his bed in England, his beloved home in Tuscany having inexplicably capsized into a ravine. As Rancid Pansies opens, ...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped with state of the art electronic warfare devices that...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Bell-Boy was James Hamilton-Paterson's third novel, first published in 1990. 'Somewhere on my tropical travels I encountered a rickety hotel on whose roof an ancient servant lived in a converted hen coop. This gave me the idea for a young bell-b...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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James Hamilton-Paterson's first collection of stories was published in 1986: in a prefatory note the author claims inspiration from the 'putative memory' of a Cynic philosopher whose 'brilliant crabbiness' saw him exiled to the foothills of the ti...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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This brilliant sequence of short stories, first published in 1995, sees James Hamilton-Patterson serving up fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss, all of them linked by the love of music and underpinned by a musical theme. An escap...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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This brilliant sequence of short stories, first published in 1995, sees James Hamilton-Patterson serving up fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss, all of them linked by the love of music and underpinned by a musical theme. An escaped ...

• / General Fiction
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Gerontius is the story of a real voyage in the life of Sir Edward Elgar, the celebrated composer of the quintessentially English tune 'Land of Hope and Glory'. The cruise up the Amazon is a holiday for the disillusioned music-maker. In telling the st...