Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Glass Room (Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novels include The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has made Italy his home for more than thirty years. ...
Simon Mawer is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Glass Room (Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novels include The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has made Italy his home for more than thirty years. ... See less
Simon Mawer's Featured Books
Simon Mawer book reviews
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The Glass Room
The Landauers And Their House
Simon Mawer's "The Glass Room" (2009) is a lengthy historical novel set largely in Czechoslovakia. The novel begins in the years prior to WW II and proceeds through the war years. It then covers the ... Read More
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Trapeze
Pedestrian
by jay k, May 23, 2018
So-so historical fiction, but the prose is no better than Young Adult level. For a far better experience of this genre, try any Alan Furst, especially The Polish Officer, or Night Soldiers. Read More
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The Glass Room
A Space in Time
Do not oick up this book unless you are prepared to put aside all calls for help and all required duties. Once you start reading you will be pulled into a world of apprehension, which begins in 1929 ... Read More
