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Nick Harkaway

goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/nickharkaway

born

November 26, 1972

gender

male

place of birth

Truro, The United Kingdom

website

http://www.nickharkaway.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

P G Wodehouse, Michael Chabon, Tom Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Alexandre Dumas (père), Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernières, Joan Aiken, Carl Hiaasen, Don DeLilo

member since

June 2008

about this author

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Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall, UK in 1972. He is possessed of two explosively exciting eyebrows, which exert an almost hypnotic attraction to 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.

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Nick Harkaway's Blog

Feeble Excuses...

Hi, all!

I'm not a very good Goodreads Author - I keep trying to stay up to date on the various sites where I have a presence, but it's time-consuming and I need to (really, really need to, will go mad shortly if I do not) finish the new book. So I occasionally post nonsense on my own site - nickharkaway.com - and I'm sometimes to be found on Twitter.

Please feel free to dro... ...more

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The Gone-Away World
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avg rating 4.04 — 300 ratings — published 2008
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