Other People's Countries

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<p><b>Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize</b> <b>Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award</b> <b>Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize</b> <b>Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize</b> <b>Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize</b></p><p>Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodards sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law.</p> <p>This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other peoples countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.</p>

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Born in Tunisia, Patrick McGuinness is the author of<i>The Last Hundred Days</i>, which was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and won the 2012 Wales Book of the Year Award and the 2012 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. His other books include two collections of poems,<i>The Canals ofMars</i>(2004), and<i>Jilted City</i>(2010), He is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, where he lectures in French.

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