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Harris’s Requiem

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099591962

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 149g

  • RRP: £9.99

Harris’s Requiem

From Booker-Prize winning novelist Stanley Middleton.

Thomas Harris is on the cusp of success as a classical composer with a growing reputation.

When his father, a coal miner, dies Thomas decides to write a requiem for him which is also a thinly veiled attack on the powerful elite. In spite of opposition he finally succeeds in getting his work performed but how will the critics react?

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • ISBN: 9780099591962

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 149g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Middleton is a born writer; unpretentious, discerning, intelligent, and virtually incapable of writing a duff sentence. He is the Chekhov of suburbia; I recommend him.

    James Runcie, Daily Telegraph

  • As ever with Middleton, the content is quiet and undramatic but the treatment makes it highly readable… there is never a dull moment.

    Sunday Times

  • Enlivening and heartening.

    Times Literary Supplement

  • A sharp and faithful picture of middle-class provincial life.

    New Statesman

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About the Author

Stanley Middleton

Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.

Stanley Middleton

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