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Giles Foden

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January 01, 1967 in Warwickshire, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Reference

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Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was brought up. He was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he read English. He worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine, then became an assistant editor on the Times Literary Supplement. He was deputy literary editor of The Guardian between 1995 and 2006 and is currently Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and still contributes regularly to The Guardian and other journals.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 2,272 ratings · 264 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Last King of Scotland 3.67 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 1998 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika 3.60 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Zanzibar 3.14 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Turbulence by Giles Foden, Foden G 3.00 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Ladysmith 3.30 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sansibar by Giles Foden, Carsten Wilhelm (Sprecher), Ulrich Blumenbach (Übersetzer) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Sukottorando No Kuroi Ōsama 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	Rankiryū: 2 by Giles Foden, 村上和久 (翻訳) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Rankiryū: 1 by Giles Foden, 村上和久 (翻訳) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene, Giles Foden (Introduction by) 3.91 avg rating — 1,179 ratings — published 1960 — 23 editions	My rating:

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