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How to be a Public Author

How To Be A Public Author is a novel all about the Man Booker, using the prize as a springboard to explore what it means to be an author – and a human being – in the 21st century. It documents a series of fictitious happenings at real author events, as visited by the wonderful anti-hero Francis Plug – a troubled and often drunk misfit who causes chaos and confusion wherever he goes. Inventive, funny and moving, How To Be A Public Author is both a brilliant slapstick comedy and a surprising and touching meditation on loneliness.

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