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Nick Harkaway

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About this author

Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall, UK in 1972. He is possessed of two explosively exciting eyebrows, which exert an almost hypnotic attraction over small children, dogs, and - thankfully - one ludicrously attractive human rights lawyer, to whom he is married.

He likes: oceans, mountains, lakes, valleys, and those little pigs made of marzipan they have in Switzerland at new year.

He does not like: bivalves. You just can't trust them.



So now I can say it: the geniuses at Knopf - and they really are - have encrypted a message on the cover of Angelmaker. Almost no one knows what it says (I, obviously, do :)

So... more details here. read more »
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Average rating: 4.15 · 2,616 ratings · 743 reviews · 8 distinct works
The Gone-Away World
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,113 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions
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Angelmaker
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Edie Investigates
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The Blind Giant
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Peter sent me a copy of this, and I love it. Not so much a linear read for me - although you could absolutely approach it that way and it would deliver - as a selection of insanely fascinating sections about cities and how they came to be what they a...more
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Okay, quick confessions:

1. I was sent this book in proof. I've since purchased it, but yes, I was given a copy by the publisher. Consider me blandished.

2. Erin has just blurbed (wonderfully) for Angelmaker, which raises the spectre of this being a so...more
Nick voted for Divergent (Divergent, #1) in Favorite Book of 2011 in the Final Round of the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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I'm loving this. Taken in tandem with Lewis's previous book, The Big Short, it's a hilarious and terrifying explanation of the present financial crisis (ruination, collapse, armageddon?)

I was chatting to a couple of people the other day who really kn...more
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“The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.”
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“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”
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“Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.”
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