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Shear

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099572596

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 161g

  • RRP: £9.99

Shear

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099572596

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 161g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Tim Parks

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.

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