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The Blasphemer
[Paperback - 2011]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Black Swan Uk | ISBN: 9780552776172 | Pages: 493
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On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. As the water floods through the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice should he save himself, or Nancy, the woman he loves? In a parallel narrative, it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele.

Nigel Farndale was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, in 1964. He is the author of six books, includingThe Blasphemer(shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award) andHaw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce(a biography shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize). His latest novel isThe Road Between Us.As a journalist he has interviewed a host of celebrities and public figures from Mick Jagger, Woody Allen, the Dalai Lama and Henry Kissinger to Elton John, Prince Charles, Hillary Clinton, Paul McCartney, George Best, and Stephen Hawking.He writes for various newspapers and magazines, includingThe Observer,FT,SpectatorandCountry Life, and has won a British Press Award for his interviews in theSunday Telegraph.His appearances on Radio 4 have includedLoose Ends,Broadcasting HouseandBetween Ourselves, a programme in which he and Lynn Barber compared notes on the art of the celebrity interview.Before becoming a writer, Farndale read philosophy for a Master’s degree at Durham University.He is the son of a sheep and dairy farmer from Wensleydale, and worked as a farmer there himself for a few years. He now lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife Mary and their three children.

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