Burley Cross Postbox Theft
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From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen - contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the hairdresser's in Skipton - it's also a job of work. The quaint moorside village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and when PC Roger Topping takes over the case, which his higher-ranking schoolmate Sergeant Laurence Everill has so far failed to crack, his expectations of success are not high.
Yet Topping's investigation into the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, Baxter Thorndyke, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirza Parry (widow), and a splendid array of other weird and wonderful characters, will not only uncover the dark underbelly of his scenic beat, but also the fundamental strengths of his own character.
The denizens of Burley Cross inhabit a world where everyone’s secrets are worn on their sleeves, pettiness becomes epic, little is writ large. From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, from biblical amateur dramatics to an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly, horribly wrong, Nicola Barker’s epistolary novel is a work of immense comic range. It is also unlike anything she has written before. Brazenly mischievous and irresistibly readable, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is a Cranford for today, albeit with a decent dose of Tamiflu, some dodgy sex-therapy and a whiff of cheap-smelling vodka.
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Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker (n. 1966) este o scriitoare din Marea Britanie. La vârsta de nouă ani, a emigrat împreună cu părinții și sora ei în Africa de Sud. S-a întors în Anglia în 1981, împreună cu mama sa. A publicat primul volum de proză în 1993, Love Your Enemies, pentru care a primit Premiul PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen și Premiul pentru Ficțiune „David Higham“. Până în prezent i-au apărut treisprezece romane și trei volume de povestiri. În general, scrie despre oameni neobișnuiți – inadaptați, excentrici – aflați în situații obișnuite. Pentru romanul H(a)ppy (Curtea Veche Publishing, 2020), a primit prestigiosul premiu Goldsmiths în 2017 și a fost nominalizată la Premiul Gordon Burn în 2018 și la Women’s Prize for Fiction în același an. Romanul a fost considerat cartea anului de către publicațiile The Guardian, The Telegraph și The Independent.
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Helen Lacey
Helen Lacey grew up reading Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables and Little House on The Prairie. These childhood classics inspired her to write her first book when she was seven years old, a story about a girl and her horse. She continued to write with the dream of one day being a published author and writing for Harlequin Special Edition is the realization of that dream. She loves creating stories about cowboys and horses and heroine's who get their happily ever after.
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Gareth Cassidy
