The Good Republic
  • Published: 4 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099584322
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

The Good Republic

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31 Mar 2013
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4 Feb 2013
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Opening in 1939, this novel spans 50 years and depicts the central character's life as a political emigre in a run down part of London. He is invited to return to his home city by the renascent nationalist movement where he learns the price of remaining an "innocent" in history.
  • Published: 4 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099584322
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

William Palmer

William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London.

http://www.williampalmer.info/

Also by William Palmer

The Devil is White
The Pardon Of St Anne
Four Last Things
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The Contract
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