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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Sceptre
- Paperback May 10, 2011 | 9780340998410 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2013 | 9781444754087 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 5, 2010 | 9781848945012 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 10, 2011 | 9780340998410 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2013 | 9781444754087 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 5, 2010 | 9781848945012 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback May 10, 2011 | 9780340998410 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2013 | 9781444754087 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 5, 2010 | 9781848945012 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Combining love, lust, murder and lots of beetles in a thrilling novel, Ned Beauman has created a page-turning debut full of wild ideas.
This is a novel for people with breeding.
Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase.
There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles.
It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining.
We hope you are too.
More books by Ned Beauman
Praise for Boxer, Beetle
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a piece of staggeringly energetic intellectual slapstick . . . it's crammed with strange, funny and interesting things - Sam Leith, Guardian
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an enjoyable confection; witty, ludicrous and entertaining - James Urquhart, Financial Times
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An astonishing debut...buzzing with energy, fizzing with ideas, intoxicating in its language, Boxer, Beetle is sexy, intelligent and deliriously funny - Jake Arnott
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A rambunctious, deftly-plotted delight of a debut - Observer
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Ned Beauman's astonishingly assured debut starts as it means to go on: confident, droll, and not in the best of taste . . . Many first novels are judged promising. Boxer, Beetle arrives fully formed: original, exhilarating and hugely enjoyable. - Peter Parker, Sunday Times
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Frighteningly assured - Katie Guest, Independent on Sunday
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Exuberant . . . There are politics, black comedy, experimentation and wild originality - and I haven't even got to the beetles. Terrific. - The Times
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Debut bout is a real knockout . . . dazzling - Daily Express
Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and a Somerset Maugham Award; and the highly acclaimed Glow and Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London.
www.nedbeauman.co.uk
www.nedbeauman.blogspot.co.uk
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