A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, INDEPENDENT, SCOTSMAN AND THE NEW YORKER
'Extraordinary.' MARINA HYDE
'Pitch-perfect.' OBSERVER
'An utter joy to read.' MONICA ALI
'Majestic.' INDEPENDENT
'A masterpiece.' JOHN LANCHESTER
'Addictively enjoyable.' GUARDIAN
'Sensational.' IRISH INDEPENDENT
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
He always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.
Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers and fine artists, at ease with the highbrow and the mainstream.
Only now, the world is changing. Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves.
Andrew O'Hagan's novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024
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Caledonian Road 9780571381357 Hardback
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Caledonian Road
Got this at the Edinburgh Book Festival. When I got round to reading it I kept waiting, page after page, chapter after chapter, for it to take off from the runway of scene setting and character outlining. It never did, instead ambling along with a tired collection of 2-dimensional characters and t…
Got this at the Edinburgh Book Festival. When I got round to reading it I kept waiting, page after page, chapter after chapter, for it to take off from the runway of scene setting and character outlining. It never did, instead ambling along with a tired collection of 2-dimensional characters and took far too long/too many pages, to reach an end. Hugely disappointing.
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Caledonian Road
Read it in 3 days, fantastic prose and story telling. An accomplished sketch of the state of our nation; given the number of voices that are heard here now it is difficult to sound authentic but Mr O' Hagan has managed to make it believable. I rate it up there with M. Amis' London novels w…
Read it in 3 days, fantastic prose and story telling. An accomplished sketch of the state of our nation; given the number of voices that are heard here now it is difficult to sound authentic but Mr O' Hagan has managed to make it believable. I rate it up there with M. Amis' London novels which from me is high praise indeed. I'm not a robot.
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780571381357
- Number of Pages:
- 656
- Publication Date:
- 04/04/2024
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- O'Hagan, Andrew
- SKU:
- 9780571381357