The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell - ISBN: 9781474610254
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Tennis, cocktails, and oblivious wealthy expats before Singapore’s fall.

The Singapore Grip

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    704 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2020

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Summary

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.

Soon to be an ITV television series starring David Morrisey, Luke Treadaway, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks.

Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family’s prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides.

Not only t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474610254
ISBN-10:1474610250
Author:J.G. Farrell
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:704
Release Date:27 August 2020
Weight:496g
Dimensions:51mm x 200mm x 131mm
Series:W&N Essentials
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Critics Review

His brilliance of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow - Olivia Manning

One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation - SPECTATOR

A fine piece of work, solid, informative, funny, tragic, one of those novels that presents a whole world for the reader to inhabit - Margaret Drabble

About The Author

J.G. Farrell

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels.

Among his novels, Troubles won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and The Siege of Krishnapur won the Booker Prize in 1973.

In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.

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