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Books by Francis Spufford
  | | The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34679-0, ISBN: 0-571-34679-0 "The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading." |
 | | Golden Hill(Reprint) A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-6388-3, ISBN: 1-5011-6388-4 "A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize * Winner of the New York City Book Award "Gorgeously ..." |
 | | True Stories(1st Edition) And Other Essays by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23005-5, ISBN: 0-300-23005-2 "An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth ..." |
 | | I May Be Some Time Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford, Michael Flamini Paperback, 388 Pages, Published 1999 by St. Martin's Griffin ISBN-13: 978-0-312-22081-5, ISBN: 0-312-22081-2 "Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in "The Times, " called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being ..." |
 | | Unapologetic(Reprint) Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Harperone ISBN-13: 978-0-06-230046-1, ISBN: 0-06-230046-6 "Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the gr ..." |
 | | Three Californias The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, Francis Spufford Paperback, 896 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-30756-9, ISBN: 1-250-30756-2 "FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RED MARS AND NEW YORK 2140Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures―one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopia―form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias.Wha ..." |
 | | Red Plenty(1st Edition) by Francis Spufford Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2012 by Graywolf Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-604-0, ISBN: 1-55597-604-2 ""Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." "--The Times "(London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, ..." |
 | | True Stories And Other Essays (Paperback) by Francis Spufford Paperback, Published 2019 by Yale University Press 2019-09-10 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24666-7, ISBN: 0-300-24666-8 |
 | | I May Be Some Time The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34678-3, ISBN: 0-571-34678-2 "Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. Fast delivery through DHL/FedEx express." |
 | | Unapologetic Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Faber & Faber Non-Fiction ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22522-4, ISBN: 0-571-22522-5 "Unapologetic is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great. But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by of ..." |
 | | The Child That Books Built(1st Edition) A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42184-7, ISBN: 0-312-42184-2 "In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as "The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, "and "The Chronicles of Narnia." He recreates the excitement ..." |
 | | The Child That Books Built(1st Edition) A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7215-0, ISBN: 0-8050-7215-2 "A wise and tender tribute to childhood reading and the power of fiction In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on th ..." |
 | | The Child That Books Built(1st Edition) A Memoir of Childhood and Reading (Nelson's Royal Classics) by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19132-1, ISBN: 0-571-19132-0 "Appears "as new" copy, with minimal signs of handlng/reading wear;" |
 | | Light Perpetual A Novel (Paperback) by Francis Spufford Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2022 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-982174-15-6, ISBN: 1-982174-15-3 "A Novel Francis Spufford. about. the. author. FRANCIS SPUFFORD is the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award ... Golden Hill, won multiple book awards including one ..." |
 | | Golden Hill A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-6387-6, ISBN: 1-5011-6387-6 "A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize * Winner of the New York City Book Award "Gorgeously ..." |
 | | Light Perpetual from the author of Costa Award-winning Golden Hill by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33648-7, ISBN: 0-571-33648-5 |
 | | Golden Hill A Novel of Old New York (Hardback) by Francis Spufford Published 2018 by Thorndike Press Large Print, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-4705-0, ISBN: 1-4328-4705-8 |
 | | GOLDEN HILL by Francis Spufford Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22520-0, ISBN: 0-571-22520-9 "WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE NAMED “NOVEL OF THE YEAR” BY THE UK’S SUNDAY TIMES “Delirious storytelling backfilled with this much intelligence is a rare and happy sight.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “[Francis Spufford is] an author capable of making any topic, however unlikely, at once fascinating and amusing. Golden Hill is both.” —The New Yorker “Not ..." |
 | | Unapologetic Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Harperone ISBN-13: 978-0-06-230045-4, ISBN: 0-06-230045-8 "Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the gr ..." |
 | | Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22524-8, ISBN: 0-571-22524-1 "The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, ..." |
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