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The Royal Free
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Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller, and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake. James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter and...
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Description
Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller, and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake.
James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter and a medical editor tasked with saving the "third oldest medical journal in the world," the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from mistakes no one else noticesβmisplaced apostrophes, Freudian misspellings, and the wrong subtype of an influenza strain (H2N1 or H5N1?).
His job is utterly boring, butβor so he tells himselfβtotally crucial. The Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body, a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world.
In the London outside of the office, the prognosis for the body politic is bad: civic unrest is poised on the brink of riots. Attempting to grieve for his lost young wife, while haunted by a group of violent North London teenagers in a collapsing city, James is brought to crisis.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776922147
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 November 2024
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 312
About the Author
Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and the author of five previous novels: A Mistake (Te Herenga Waka University Press and Counterpoint, 2019); Anti Lebanon (Counterpoint, 2013); Three Novellas for a Novel (2008; Mansfield Road Press, 2011); The Lazy Boys (Counterpoint, 2006); and The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), winner of the Prize in Modern Letters in 2006. He lives in Wellington with his wife and two children.
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