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Dig Now a BAFTA-nominated motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James

Preston, John
Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780141016382
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
171 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Preston, John

Biographical note

John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. His novel, The Dig, based on the 1939 archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, has been filmed starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. His first nonfiction book, A Very English Scandal, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and turned into BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. His latest book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell was published to great acclaim in February 2021. It has been shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Prize and is being adapted for television by Working Title productions.

Dig Now a BAFTA-nominated motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James

Preston, John
Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk
Preston, John
Heftet / 2008 / Engelsk
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Very fine, engrossing, exquisitely original

Ian McEwan

An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year

Robert Harris

You don't need to be in archaeology - this is a tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love. It's so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal

Nigella Lawson

Se alle

A rich vein of dry humour runs throughout

Evening Standard

Intriguing, tender and entertaining … easily Preston's best

Independent

A delicate, quietly affecting human drama

Daily Mail

A moving novel that coheres wonderully as it progresses

Spectator

A delicate evocation of a vanished era

Sunday Times

Wonderful, evocative. From this simple tale of dirt, Preston has produced the finest gold. He keeps an iron grip on the reader's attention

Observer

Beatutifully written...there is a true and wonderful ending to the story

- Bill Wyman, Mail on Sunday

Wistful and poignant. A masterpiece in Chekhovian understatement

Times Literary Supplement

Exciting, evocative and beautifully written. A treasure in itself

Griff Rhys Jones

Shimmers with longing and regret . . . Preston writes with economical grace . . . He has written a kind of universal chamber piece, small in detail, beautifully made and liable to linger on in the heart and the mind. It is something utterly unfamiliar, and quite wonderful.

- Michael Pye, The New York Times Book Review

An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year

Robert Harris

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivaly flourished in equal measure
Les mer
In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find.
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Very fine, engrossing, exquisitely original

Ian McEwan

An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year

Robert Harris

You don't need to be in archaeology - this is a tale of rivalry, loss and thwarted love. It's so absorbing that I read right through lunchtime one day, and it's not often I miss a meal

Nigella Lawson

Se alle

A rich vein of dry humour runs throughout

Evening Standard

Intriguing, tender and entertaining … easily Preston's best

Independent

A delicate, quietly affecting human drama

Daily Mail

A moving novel that coheres wonderully as it progresses

Spectator

A delicate evocation of a vanished era

Sunday Times

Wonderful, evocative. From this simple tale of dirt, Preston has produced the finest gold. He keeps an iron grip on the reader's attention

Observer

Beatutifully written...there is a true and wonderful ending to the story

- Bill Wyman, Mail on Sunday

Wistful and poignant. A masterpiece in Chekhovian understatement

Times Literary Supplement

Exciting, evocative and beautifully written. A treasure in itself

Griff Rhys Jones

Shimmers with longing and regret . . . Preston writes with economical grace . . . He has written a kind of universal chamber piece, small in detail, beautifully made and liable to linger on in the heart and the mind. It is something utterly unfamiliar, and quite wonderful.

- Michael Pye, The New York Times Book Review

An enthralling story of love and loss, a real literary treasure. One of the most original novels of the year

Robert Harris

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivaly flourished in equal measure
Les mer
In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780141016382
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
171 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Preston, John

Biographical note

John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. His novel, The Dig, based on the 1939 archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, has been filmed starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. His first nonfiction book, A Very English Scandal, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and turned into BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. His latest book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell was published to great acclaim in February 2021. It has been shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Prize and is being adapted for television by Working Title productions.

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