Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale is the authorof the novel When We Were Romans, the short story collection Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance and the novel English Passengers, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He is a keen traveler who has lived in Japan, Canada, and Italy, and has journeyed extensively across the globe, visiting seven continents and walking in mountains from New Guinea to Ethiopia, Patagonia to Pakistan. Kneale lives in Rome, Italy, with his wife and two children.
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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-67284-9 (0-385-67284-5)
August 20, 2010 | $13.95
The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad.
Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together...
Written by Matthew Kneale
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-67284-9 (0-385-67284-5)
August 20, 2010 | $13.95
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The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad.
Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together...
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When We Were Romans
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37375-5 (0-307-37375-4)
February 12, 2010 | $19.95
From the acclaimed author of 26a, comes a dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one’s dream, and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.
As a child Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the...
Written by Matthew Kneale
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37375-5 (0-307-37375-4)
February 12, 2010 | $19.95
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From the acclaimed author of 26a, comes a dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one’s dream, and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.
As a child Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
When We Were Romans
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66778-4 (0-385-66778-7)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees London and heads for Rome, where Hannah lived happily as a young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated...
Written by Matthew Kneale
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66778-4 (0-385-66778-7)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
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Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees London and heads for Rome, where Hannah lived happily as a young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated...
Also available as an
eBook.
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66139-3 (0-385-66139-8)
March 14, 2006 | $19.95
The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad.
Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together...
Written by Matthew Kneale
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66139-3 (0-385-66139-8)
March 14, 2006 | $19.95
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The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad.
Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together...
Also available as an
eBook.
English Passengers
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65866-9 (0-385-65866-4)
July 10, 2001 | $22.00
English Passengers presents the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of a remarkable cast of characters -- including British convicts, government officials, missionaries who impose their European standards and self-serving rules on the native population, aboriginal Tasmanians caught in a desperate struggle for survival, and members of a bizarre expedition searching for...
Written by Matthew Kneale
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65866-9 (0-385-65866-4)
July 10, 2001 | $22.00
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English Passengers presents the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of a remarkable cast of characters -- including British convicts, government officials, missionaries who impose their European standards and self-serving rules on the native population, aboriginal Tasmanians caught in a desperate struggle for survival, and members of a bizarre expedition searching for...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
English Passengers
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25974-3 (0-385-25974-3)
January 23, 2001 | $19.95
Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The...
Written by Matthew Kneale
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25974-3 (0-385-25974-3)
January 23, 2001 | $19.95
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Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
