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Six Lives

By Lavie Tidhar
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Six Lives Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold. The Guano Merchant In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in... Read More
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A new stand-alone literary fiction novel from award-winning author Lavie Tidhar

A new stand-alone literary fiction novel from award-winning author Lavie Tidhar

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Six Lives

Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.

The Guano Merchant
In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.

Memento Mori
In 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic.

The Country House Murder
In 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder.

The Spy
In 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.

Zabbaleen
In 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at Black Dirt, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo.

New York
In 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for all. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804543535

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Apollo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 464

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Fiction General Fiction Lavie Tidhar Literary Fiction

About the Author

Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and the forthcoming Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.

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