Gregory Norminton
Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Novelist, actor, playwright, and environmental activist, born in 1976. Several short stories and dramatisations have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has completed a short story collection THE POISON TREE. He was on the Iowa International Writers Programme, and Writer in Residence at Magdalene, Cambridge. His books are SHIP OF FOOLS, ARTS AND WONDERS, GHOST PORTRAIT, SERIOUS THINGS and THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY. As well as novels, he has published two collections of short stories and a book of aphorisms, translated three books including The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, written plays for radio and appeared several times on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. He is a Senior Lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield with his wife and daughter.
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THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY
Literary, 224 pages
4th Estate, Jan 2018
An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother and his tribe.
In the twenty-first century, two men – one damaged by war, another by divorce – clash over their differing claims on the land, and a young girl is caught between them.
In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world.
A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a hand-carved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken.
SERIOUS THINGS
Literary Fiction. 282 pages
Sceptre - January 24, 2008
Shortlisted for the Robin Jenkins Literary Award, 2009.
Longlisted for World Book Day ’50 Best Books to Talk About’, 2009.
In a 1990s boarding school, 13-year-old Bruno and fellow outsider Anthony, a glamorous yet troubled boy, are encouraged by an idealistic English teacher to explore the 'more serious things' in life.
ARTS AND WONDERS
Literary Fiction, 496 pages
Sceptre, new edition 1 September 2004
‘In the wake of our ribald dwarf are a family of werewolves, an English alchemist, mercenaries, quacks, tarts and a circus… Its determined earthiness is balanced by Gregory Norminton’s expansive prose, his erudite wit and deft orchestration of the phantasmagoria he conjures.’ -- Times Literary Supplement
THE SHIP OF FOOLS
Literary fiction, 278 pages
Sceptre, 21 March 2002
Inspired and named after the painting by Bosch. In Chaucerian style, the fools on the purgatorial ship bicker and vie for attention, creating a compendium of interrelated stories. Fans of Borges, Calvino, Rushdie and Grass will enjoy the Baroque relish of the weird and the wonderful.