Francis Spufford: 11 books

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner...

Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing...

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters...

«Un libro meraviglioso, unico nel suo genere. Un libro da non perdere». Edmund de Waal, autore di Un’eredità di avorio e ambra È con una verve straordinaria, e con un punto di vista originalissimo, che Francis Spufford racconta la storia dell’Unione Sovietica tra gli anni Cinquanta...

«Golden Hill è un romanzo gioioso che ti lascia raggiante, e al contempo così serio che ti chiede di rileggerlo più e più volte... Questo libro è oro puro. » «Sunday Telegraph» «Ci sono scene più illuminanti, cesellate con più amore, di libri interi. » «Financial Times» «Una...

De Britse schrijver Francis Spufford is christen en schaamt zich daar niet voor. Want het beeld dat Richard Dawkins en andere nieuwe atheïsten schetsen, is een grote karikatuur. Christenen zijn meer dan wereldvreemde fi guren, die midden in de zomer lelijke regenjacks dragen en dwepen met ellende....

"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which...

A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human...

The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now, for the first time...

Een prijswinnende en sensationele roman over koloniaal New York, waarin de Hollanders een prominente plek innemen. Historisch vermaak van de bovenste plank. 1746: De charmante Mr. Smith komt aan in New York met een wisselbrief van 1000 Britse ponden, een astronomisch hoog bedrag. Wie is hij en hoe...

Je zou het nooit geraden hebben, maar de grauwe, onderdrukkende Sovjet-Unie was gegrondvest op een sprookje: de magische planeconomie zou leiden tot een ongekende welvaart en groei. Aan het eind van de jaren vijftig leek het er ook heel even op dat de magie werkelijkheid zou worden: een kort moment...