{"product_id":"true-stories-by-francis-spufford-9780300246667","title":"True Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn irresistible collection of favourite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471861399788,"sku":"9780300246667","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/40c4612c97b3dd6a489d32ac63d0cddd.jpg?v=1775693263","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/true-stories-by-francis-spufford-9780300246667","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}