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Several Deceptions

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099273745

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £8.99

Several Deceptions

These four novellas are narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice telling the stories of an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics undone by his own cleverness; an Irish woman who joins a Tibetan nunnery in India; the old university friends whose party is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost humour; and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several Deceptions is clever, funny and a little cruel and introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099273745

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 225g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A very enjoyable display of deadly wit given with a relaxed literary confidence. Here is a gossipy, smart, critical, intellectual, high spirited and literate voice

    Hal Jensen, Times Literary Supplement

  • Clever and enjoyable... This is an accomplished first book, and even if Stevenson never writes another word, she is already more than promising

    Phil Baker, Sunday Times

  • What continuously sustains these stories is an unfashionable concept of serious fiction as etnertainment, an art in which the process is as enjoyable as the effects it is designed to produce... Relish the neat professionalism of a smart new act

    Jonathan Keates, Independent

  • Stevenson's careful plotting and attention to detail prove she is a new voice worth listening to

    The Times

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About the Author

Jane Stevenson

Jane Stevenson is the author of two collections of novellas, Several Deceptions and Good Women, and four novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and The Empress of the Last Days. She is a professor in the history department at Aberdeen University and holds the Regius Chair of Humanity.

Jane Stevenson

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