Mark Illis

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Biographical note:  Mark Illis has written three novels, A Chinese Summer, The Alchemist and The Feather Report. His stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies, and he also writes for TV and radio. He has worked as a Literature Development Worker, and as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation. He continues to write short stories and is working on a new novel. Born in London, Mark now lives in West Yorkshire with his wife and two children.

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EAN13:  9781907773099
ISBN:  9781907773099
Author:  Mark Illis
Title:  The Last Word
Series:  Salt Modern Fiction
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  FA
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  17-Aug-11
Extent:  176pp
Height:  198 mm
Width:  129 mm
Thickness:  12 mm
Weight:  264 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 8.99
Price:  USD 14.95
Rights:  World

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Main description:  Two spiky oddballs are forced together by circumstances, get tangled in a mystery, almost sleep with each other, and spin off in unexpected directions. There may be a death at the heart of this novel, but when it reaches its surprise ending the characters are looking forward with hope and optimism, and the reader will have a big smile on her or his face.

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Unpublished endorsement:  Mark Illis is a great stylist: eloquent, graceful, quiet. His work has wonderful subtlety and surprising strength.

Anne Enright

Previous review quote:  On Tender: Illis has an engaging style and his prose is vivid and inventively colloquial.

Times Literary Supplement

Previous review quote:  On Tender: Tender can mean loving. But in this coolly observed, meticulously crafted family drama, one is reminded that it also means damaged, and acutely vulnerable to further hurt.

The Independent