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Description for The Doll Princess
Paperback. It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page is a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in a basement. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 223.
Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page is a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in a basement. In the back pages there is a fifty-word piece on the murder of a young prostitute found dumped on a roadside.
For Henry Bane, fixer, loanshark and legman for one of Manchester's established ganglords, it's the second piece ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099554066
SKU
KTG0012786
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Tom Benn
Tom Benn was born in 1987, and grew up in Stockport. He is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and was the recipient of the 2009 Malcolm Bradbury bursary.
Reviews for The Doll Princess
Tom Benn, Stockport born and bred, is that rare thing. A startlingly new, ridiculously stylish, home-grown voice. Despite more than a casual nod to a rain-sodden Hulme dialect, Benn's debut is so full of energy and sharp one-liners, it will travel far and wide
Henry Sutton
Daily Mirror
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Henry Sutton
Daily Mirror
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