Summary
‘Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate - my hand leaps to the shelf’ PAUL THEROUX
‘The most original and interesting novelist of his generation’ ALLAN MASSIE, SCOTSMAN
2039, the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. 160,000 kilometres-square of ocean-crashed desert, littered with bones, shipwrecks and shattered dreams.
Cat Brosnan, a young scientist, has just arrived, aiming to track down a much-needed water source believed to lie hidden within this vast and ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780221083 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780221088 |
| Author: | Giles Foden |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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An entertaining yarn that brings a touch of Rider Haggard to modern eco-politics – Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
A mystery set in a dried-up world * TLS *
Action-packed * Guardian *
About The Author
Giles Foden
Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent much of his early life in Africa. He was educated at Cambridge University. He has worked as a barman, a builder, a journalist, an academic, and as a rapporteur for the European Commission. For ten years, he was an editor and writer on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, and his writing has since been published in Granta, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a contributing editor. His fiction includes The Last King of Scotland, Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence. The Last King of Scotland was made into an Oscar-winning feature film in 2006.
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