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Christopher Priest
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Christopher Priest was born in Cheshire, England. He began writing soon after leaving school and has been a full-time freelance writer since 1968. He has published twelve novels, three short story collections and a number of other books, including critical works, biographies, novelizations and children's non-fiction. His novel The Prestige was adapted to film and released by Warner Bros in 2006 to great critical success with two Oscar nominations, and was directed by Christopher Nolan. He lives in Hastings, England, with his twin adult children, Elizabeth and Simon. His latest novel, The Islanders, was published in September 2011 by Gollancz. | http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk |
The Prestige 
The Affirmation 
The Dream Archipelago 
The Glamour 
The Extremes 
The Separation 
The Islanders
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| THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO 2009 Gollancz | In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago is a neutral zone, and therefore an alluring prospect to the young men on both sides of the conflict. In this interlinked collection of short stories and novellas, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality. Each tale is a truimph of quiet, steady craftsmanship, a model of ingenious design and subtle implication, and as a group they further enrich each other by interlocking cleverly, symmetrically and sometimes sinisterly. |
| THE SEPARATION 2007 Gollancz | THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a pacifist, works with the Red Cross, rescuing bombing victims in London. But this is not a straightforward story of the Second World War: this is an alternate history: the two brothers - both called J.L. Sawyer - live their lives in alternate versions of reality. |
| THE AFFIRMATION 2006 Gollancz | Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in . . . THE AFFIRMATION is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality. |
| THE GLAMOUR 2005 Gollancz | Richard Grey, suffering from amnesia after a car-bomb explosion, is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover. His attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. |
| THE PRESTIGE 2005 Gollancz | Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. |
| THE EXTREMES 2005 Gollancz | British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a gunman's massacre has haunting similarities to the murders in Texas. Desperate to unravel the mystery, Teresa turns to the virtual reality world of Extreme Experience, ExEx, now commercially available since she trained on it in the US. |
| FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND 1978 Macmillan | One of Chris Priest's earliest novels (first published in 1972). In its day Fugue was thought of as a modern version of the familiar 'British catastrophe' science fiction novel, but subsequent world events have given the story a sinister topicality. Tragic refugees escaping political and military upheaval at home are now all too frequently seeking asylum elsewhere. In Fugue, survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent, and look for refuge in the countries of the West. |
| INVERTED WORLD 1979 Macmillan |
