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Simon Mawer

Born

in England, The United Kingdom

September 18, 1948

Died

February 12, 2025

Website

http://www.simonmawer.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Simon Mawer was a British author who lived in Italy.

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Simon Mawer’s books

Average rating: 3.8 · 31,399 ratings · 3,782 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Glass Room 3.93 avg rating — 12,916 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trapeze (Marian Sutro, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 7,401 ratings — published 2012 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prague Spring 3.80 avg rating — 3,018 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tightrope (Marian Sutro, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 2,662 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall 4.04 avg rating — 1,673 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mendel's Dwarf 3.65 avg rating — 1,578 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestry 4.01 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gospel of Judas 3.11 avg rating — 869 ratings — published 2000 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming to Ithaca 3.65 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Place in Italy 3.71 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Marian Sutro (2 books)
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“You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.”
― Simon Mawer, Mendel's Dwarf

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“She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.”
― Simon Mawer, The Glass Room

tags: emotion, emotions, enjoyable, happiness, happy, laughter, miserable, sad, sadness

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“It is perfectly possible to believe two contradictory things at one and the same time - that is one of the brilliant faculties of the human mind.”
― Simon Mawer

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