Matthew Kneale, Author . Doubleday/Talese $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-51407-1
Kneale, author of the Whitbread-winning English Passengers
, reaches all over the world for these 12 tales, with mixed results. The global economy's power imbalance is the general theme; Kneale shows how the peoples of the world, though...
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Matthew Kneale, Author . Doubleday/Talese $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-52625-8
Kneale, who won the Whitbread for English Passengers
(2000), returns with a tale narrated by fiery, precocious, pitch-perfect Lawrence, who at nine years old struggles with being at once a normal kid and, with his parents' estrangement, the...
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Matthew Kneale, Author Nan A. Talese $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-49743-5
The brutal hand of British imperialism provides the foundation for this broad historical swashbuckler about the English colonization of Tasmania in the early and mid-19th century. U.K. author Kneale debuts stateside with this lengthy novel of...
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Matthew Kneale. Counterpoint, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61902-235-5
Yet another atheism title attempts to make the reader “forget Dawkins or Hitchens,” as this book’s publisher suggests, and render skepticism understandable. And British writer Kneale accomplishes just that in his lively look at the history of...
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Matthew Kneale. Simon & Schuster, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9109-1
Kneale (Passengers) stumbles in his attempt to plumb the mystique of the Eternal City in this panoramic and deeply researched account of Roman history, told through the city’s seven sackings at the hands of Gauls, Goths, Nazis, and other barbarian...
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