The small world of 1780s London is plunged into dark wonder when the corpse of an infant – a mermaid – comes into Jonah Hancock’s possession. Intrigue catches like a fire, setting the town into a ...
Debut author Imogen Hermes Gowar has been nominated for this year's The Times Breakthrough Award in the Books category for her novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Harvill Secker). The Times ...
There are few book advances as peculiar as the one 30-year-old Londoner Imogen Hermes Gowar received for her debut novel. A fierce 10-way bidding war had broken out for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, a ...
They are the mythical, glittery-tailed females, beautiful cousins of the sirens said to lure unsuspecting men to a watery doom and whose sweet songs of love should never be trusted. And in 2018 they ...
Imogen Hermes Gowar's novel is Harvill’s lead dé but fiction title for 2018. But its prominence belies its more humble beginnings. Imogen Hermes Gowar used to work as a gallery assistant at the ...
Three debuts make the six-strong lineup, including British author Imogen Hermes Gowar, while ‘grand old names’ such as Arundhati Roy lose out From Arundhati Roy to Jennifer Egan, some of the biggest ...
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