| Next of Kin Contributor(s): Boyne, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312539347 ISBN-13: 9780312539344 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2009 Annotation: Boynes novel vividly captures 1930s London, revealing the secrets of the upper-class, complete with gambling, murder, an art heist, and a conspiracy to unseat the new king that could change the future of the country. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007040849 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9.09" L (1.20 lbs) 368 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes John Boyne's Next of Kin It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will. He must pay 50,000 worth of gambling debts by Christmas or he'll soon find himself six feet under. In his desperation, he discovers that the royal scandal could provide the means for profit . . . and for murder. |
Contributor Bio(s): Boyne, John: - John Boyne is the author of Crippen, The Thief of Time, Next of Kin, and the New York Times and internationally bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Boyne won two Irish Book Awards (the People's Choice and the Children's) for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which was made into a Miramax feature film, and his novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Ireland's Sunday Business Post named him one of the forty people under forty in Ireland "likely to be the movers and shakers who will define the country's culture, politics, style and economics in 2005 and beyond." Crippen was nominated for the Sunday Independent Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives with his partner in Dublin. |
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