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He is the author of two novels: The Short Day Dying (2005) and In the Orchard, the Swallows (2012), and of I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train (2006), a book of short stories. He is also published in New Writing 13, an annual anthology of new work, and 'Zembla'.
He is the author of two novels: The Short Day Dying (2005) and In the Orchard, the Swallows (2012), and of I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train (2006), a book of short stories. He is also published in New Writing 13, an annual anthology of new work, and 'Zembla'.
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Apr 14, 2012 · Sometimes, quite literally. In 1997, British author Peter Hobbs, 22 years old and fresh out of Oxford, was set to embark on a Middle Eastern diplomatic career. Before taking up his post, he decided to travel through Pakistan. There, he was struck down by a serious illness.
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Peter Hobbs is the author of two novels, The Short Day Dying and In The Orchard, The Swallows, as well as a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train.
Feb 4, 2014 · In the Orchard, the Swallows. Paperback – February 4, 2014. by Peter Hobbs (Author) 115. See all formats and editions. This tale of innocence and corruption in Pakistan is “a beautiful, often painful, journey of a young man’s doomed yearning for love” (The Guardian).
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Jul 31, 2008 · Peter Hobbs’s debut novel, The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train, was published by Faber in 2006.
Peter Hobbs is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. His first novel The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005) won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread first novel award, the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and the International Impac Dublin award.
