Rumours of a Hurricane

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 378. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; claret endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Shortlisted for the Whitbread Best Novel Award and the Encore Award for Best Second Novel in 2002. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for his first novel, White City Blue (1999). The life of one ordinary man is torn apart by the great upheavals of the 1980s in Thatcher's Britain. "An outstanding comic novel. Places the 1980s under sceptical and merciless scrutiny." –Literary Review