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Drowned Hogg Day
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Artikel-Nr:
9781635877380
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.12.2016
Seiten:
330
Autor:
Nick Smith
Gewicht:
428 g
Format:
210x148x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nick Smith is a playwright, novelist, academic and musician. Most of his plays have a historical or literary aspect, including Free Love, a comic drama set in the 1810s, Yusupov and Rasputin, a comedy about the last days of the Romanovs, and a comedy musical version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He is a recent winner of the Oxfordshire Drama Network Playwriting Prize. Nick's 2016 novel, Drowned Hogg Day, was well received and he has also published two bridge books, Bridge Literature and Bridge Behind Bars. He has appeared on about 20 TV quiz shows, including Mastermind, Only Connect, Eggheads and Countdown. A former academic, Nick is the founder and Principal of Oxford Open Learning, the UK's leading home-education school. He lives in Fyfield, Oxfordshire.
Alex Hogg knows that he will drown on December 30th 2016. As the day of doom approaches, he makes a number of fascinating discoveries. On December 30th 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley married Mary Godwin, the author of Frankenstein, and on December 30th 1916 the Mad Monk, Rasputin, was murdered in the Moika Palace, St Petersburg. How do these apparently unconnected events link to Alex's prospective drowning and is there anything he can do to avert his fate?
Part-comedy, part-mystery, part-history, part-crossword puzzle, Drowned Hogg Day will keep its readers on tenterhooks from first page to last. By way of a bonus, four one-act plays are included, each set on 30/12/**16.
Nick Smith is the author of Bridge Literature and winner of the 2014 Oxfordshire Drama Network's Playwriting Prize. Drowned Hogg Day is his first novel.
Part-comedy, part-mystery, part-history, part-crossword puzzle, Drowned Hogg Day will keep its readers on tenterhooks from first page to last. By way of a bonus, four one-act plays are included, each set on 30/12/**16.
Nick Smith is the author of Bridge Literature and winner of the 2014 Oxfordshire Drama Network's Playwriting Prize. Drowned Hogg Day is his first novel.