Authors: James Hamilton-Paterson
Rancid Pansies (34 page)
James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of
Gerontius
, winner of a Whitbread Prize;
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water
; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy
Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace
and
Rancid Pansies.
FICTION
Loving Monsters
The View from Mount Dog
Gerontius
The Bell-Boy
Griefwork
Ghosts of Manila
The Music
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Amazing Disgrace
Rancid Pansies
CHILDREN’S FICTION
Flight Underground
The House in the Waves
Hostage!
NON-FICTION
A Very Personal War: The Story of Cornelius Hawkridge
(also published as The Greedy War)
Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt|
Playing with Water
Seven-Tenths
America’s Boy
Three Miles Down
POETRY
Option Three
Dutch Alps
First published in 2008
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2012
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