About the Author: John Burnside
John Burnside is the author of nine collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside has achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. Born in Scotland, he moved away in 1965, returning to settle there in 1995. In the intervening period he worked as a factory hand, a labourer, a gardener and, for ten years, as a computer systems designer. He now lives in Fife with his wife and children and teaches Creative Writing, Literature and Ecology courses at the University of St Andrews.
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Paperback, Published in Apr 2015 by Random House UK
ISBN10: 0099448556 | ISBN13: 9780099448556
Page count: 378
"A master of beautiful language." —Hilary Mantel, author, Wolf Hall  Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces—in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Among them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees. Alienated, intelligent, and curious, they form a strong and lasting bond: two teenage boys finding their feet in a foreign place. But violence hangs in the Corby air like the ash and the stench from the steel works, and when it comes down it is sudden and lethal, with repercussions that will last a lifetime. This story of friendship and loss is a resonant, thrilling book that carries at its core a beautiful and terrible secret.
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