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James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy that began with Cooking with Fernet Branca, and the autobiographical Playing With Water.
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- PublisherFABER & FABER
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0571314015
- ISBN 13 9780571314010
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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