Armadillo

Author: William Boyd

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780140279443
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : 0.276
  • : 01 February 1998
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 27mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780140279443
9780140279443

Description

Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the office.

Awards

Shortlisted for WH Smith Literary Prize 1999 and W H Smith Annual Literary Award 1999.

Author description

William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952, the son of a Scottish doctor. He was educated in Glasgow and Oxford. He has written seven previous novels and two books of short stories, all of them published by Penguin. He lives in Chelsea and France.