Paul Griffiths

• Sep-1984
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• Apr-1990
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Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and persuades Polo to dictate his memoirs to him. The s...

• Nov-2008
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"So: now I come to speak. At last. I will tell you all I know...." These are the words of Ophelia at the beginning of this short novel: literally her words, in that her narrative is composed entirely of the vocabulary she is allotted in Hamlet. Withi...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to develop new treatments? Medical progress is laden with red tape and other obstacles, including the need to provide profits for the pharmaceutical industry. This factional story weaves authentic scientifi...

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction
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Getting a diagnosis of HIV is bad enough, but even worse if you know you have no risk factors. At the start of Lenti, we meet a young man deliberately, but unknowingly, infected with HIV. As more cases occur, Inspector Bill Painter is sent to investi...

• May-2020
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths PrizeBased on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job.It is a m...

• Jul-2021
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• Apr-2025
• / Literary
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Two novels from the perspective of Hamlet’s Ophelia -- the first set before the events of the play, the second after -- written entirely by remixing and repurposing the character’s dialogue from Shakespeare’s original text.“So: now I come to ...