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Matthew Sweet talks to author Sarah Perry about her gothic imagination, writing about religion, rationalism and disease in novels including The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes The Flood and Melmoth ...
Francis Fukuyama, Olga Tokarczuk, Alev Scott, Michael Talbot. Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands Playing God The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction. Matthew Sweet talks to the author of ...
Sarah Perry discusses Melmoth, her eagerly awaited novel after her award-winning The Essex Serpent. Her new novel is about an English translator who, hiding from her past in Prague, uncovers the ...
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Enlightenment by Sarah Perry. Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, creates worlds to disappear into, combining complex ideas and richly layered stories with beautiful, vivid prose.
WAITSFIELD, Vt. — Sarah Perry put a total solar eclipse in her new novel, “Enlightenment,” but — absurdly, in her opinion — had never seen one herself. So, this spring, she crossed the ...
While Enlightenment, like its predecessor Melmoth (2018), is broadly contemporary, set between 1997 and 2017, ... Enlightenment by Sarah Perry Jonathan Cape £20/Mariner $28, 400 pages.
Enlightenment is a book by an author at the top of their game. And when that author is Sarah Perry, whose previous works include the bestselling The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, that’s high praise ...
Sarah Ferguson has praised the “brilliant” Matthew Perry in a tribute to the actor, who died at the age of 54 on Saturday, 28 October. In 1998, Ferguson appeared in the season 4 episode “The ...
Sarah Perry wrote The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, After Me Comes the Flood and the non-fictional tome Essex Girls. Vice-chancellor of the university, Prof Anthony Forster, ...
She has also written the novels Melmoth, After Me Comes The Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. Dr Perry said: “It is a great honour to be appointed as the chancellor of the University of ...