Matthew Kneale

• Jan-2001
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In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishme...

• May-2001
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London in the summer of 1849. With a deadly cholera epidemic threatening, young engineer Joshua Jeavons is convinced it is his mission to save the capital and reform its festering sewers. Meanwhile in his dometsic life he is troubled by the baffling ...

• Feb-2003
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Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo. His passport lost, he is working illegally in a ramshackle language school, whose boss refuses to pay his salary. He is in a dead end relationship with Keiko, his cloying Japanese gir...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo. Working illegally in a ramshackle language school, his passport lost, he is hustled towards marriage with Keiko, his Japanese girlfriend. In the gloom of the rainy season, Daniel's li...

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered ...

• Jun-2007
• / General Fiction
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When We Were Romans is a haunting psychological novel and another masterful work from the author of the prizeâ€"winning English Passengers. Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man of his family. He watches over his mother and his willful little sist...

• Feb-2021
• / Historical
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A The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year'An enthralling and wonderfully vivid novel from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor'Kneale's medieval world is animated with a refreshing lightness of touch' Sunday Telegraph1289. A rich farmer fears he...

• May-2023
• / Historical
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