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Simon Mawer

August 2022

  • Simon Mawer

    Ancestry: A Novel by Simon Mawer review – one for all the family

    The tale of his 19th-century ancestors in fictional form is undercut by the author butting in to remind us of his exhaustive research

November 2015

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    'Women are more interesting than men': Simon Mawer on Tightrope

    The Booker-listed novelist has brought back his second world war spy, Marian Sutro. He discusses female leads, the SOE and the dreaded ‘B’ word: Bond

September 2015

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    Tightrope by Simon Mawer review – meet the female James Bond

    This stylish cold war thriller brings impeccable period detail to a tale of deception and derring-do

August 2015

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    Tightrope review – Simon Mawer’s skilful evocation of a mind under stress

    Intangibles loom large in this tale of a British intelligence agent forced by the cold war to revisit memories of her capture by the Nazis

June 2013

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    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer – review

    Simon Mawer's follow-up to the Booker-shortlisted The Glass Room is more of a traditional thriller, writes Natasha Tripney

November 2012

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    The Glass Room restored

    Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat in Brno, one of the great buildings of European modernism, was the original Landauer House in Simon Mawer's novel. By Fiona MacCarthy

August 2012

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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: war stories, horror and democratic Islam

    Simon Mawer and Michèle Roberts discuss their books set in occupied France, Louise Welsh moves from Glasgow to Berlin and Maajid Nawaz tells of how he moved from Muslim militancy to starting a movement for democratic Islam

May 2012

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    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer – review

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    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer – review

November 2010

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    Once upon a life
    Once upon a life: Simon Mawer

    An avalanche in 1975 on the North Face of Ben Nevis left Simon Mawer clinging to an ice ledge for 22 hours. As he waited to be rescued, the writer realised that if he survived, his life would never be the same again…

July 2010

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    House and home

    House and home: Sue Arnold's audiobook choice

April 2010

  • The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

    Czechoslovakia between the wars provides the starting point for Mawer's finest work so far, says James Purdon

January 2010

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    Theo van Doesburg: Forgotten artist of the avant garde

    Simon Mawer on Theo van Doesburg, Mondrian's contemporary and friend

October 2009

  • Simon Mawer

    A life in ...
    A life in books

    Simon Mawer: 'I'm a novelist. I don't want to tell the truth. I want to manipulate things as I choose. I want to lie'

8 September 2009

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    The Man Booker shortlist 2009

    Claire Armitstead, literary editor of the Guardian, Sarah Crown, editor of the Guardian/books and William Skidelsky, literary editor of the Observer, discuss this year's shortlist for the Man Booker prize

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    The 2009 Man Booker shortlist

    Take a tour of the novels on this year's Man Booker shortlist

  • JM Coetzee and Hilary Mantel

    Man Booker prize shortlist pits veteran Coetzee against bookies' favourite Mantel

    Heavy-hitting trio of Hilary Mantel, AS Byatt and Sarah Waters are joined on Man Booker shortlist by JM Coetzee, who could become first author ever to win a Booker hat-trick

July 2009

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    Coetzee leads the bookies' Booker race

    JM Coetzee is 3/1 favourite to win the Booker prize with Summertime, while Simon Mawer is the greatest gainer in Amazon sales

January 2009

  • Design for living

    Review: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
    A novel of architecture, art, betrayal and sex impresses Ian Sansom

February 2003

  • Before the fall

    DJ Taylor enjoys The Fall, Simon Mawer's evocative tale set in the shadow of Snowdonia

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