Run to the Western Shore: 'Surprising, poignant, elemental' novel from award-winning author
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Run to the Western Shore: 'Surprising, poignant, elemental' novel from award-winning author

Run to the Western Shore: 'Surprising, poignant, elemental' novel from award-winning author

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Tim Pears (Author)  

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'A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The Times A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux Britain, AD 72. Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman. Though a citizen of nowhere, is a man of reason, fluent in many languages. Olwen, imperious tribal royalty, is rooted in her native land - a volatile warrior, fiercely attached to the natural world. Given away by her father as part of a peace treaty, Olwen flees during the night, taking Quintus with her. Hunted by an army, the two make their way across the country, living off the land, heading for the western shore...
Tim Pears is a Lannan Prize-winning author and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In A Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards), and The West Country Trilogy.
  • Contributor: Tim Pears
  • Imprint: Swift Press
  • ISBN13: 9781800752979
  • Number of Pages: 208
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x198mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Swift Press
  • Release Date: 2023-11-02
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Tim Pears is a Lannan Prize-winning author and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In A Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards), and The West Country Trilogy.

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