Edward Docx





Edward Docx

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Edward Docx was born in 1972 in the north of England. He grew up in Cheshire and London. After school, he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and was Junior Common Room President.

He began his professional writing career working on the national newspapers. In 2003, his first novel, The Calligrapher, was published to widespread acclaim. It was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News as a Best Book of the Year and is now translated into eight languages.

In 2007, his second novel, Pravda (entitled Self Help in the UK), was published; it was long-listed for the Man Booker and went on to win The Geoffrey Faber Prize. In 2003 and then again in 2007, Docx travelled in South America as p...more


Average rating: 3.45 · 668 ratings · 170 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
The Calligrapher
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
Pravda
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
The Devil's Garden
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
A Good Man
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007
On Death
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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“Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.”
Edward Docx, Pravda

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