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The Invention of Dr Cake (Paperback)

Sir Andrew Motion (author)

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Paperback 160 Pages
Published: 01/04/2004

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Synopsis Author

What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a tantalising novel about poets and their afterlife.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571216321
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 155 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 12 mm
Edition: Main

Sir Andrew Motion

The UK’s Poet Laureate from 1999 -2009, Andrew Motion is a world-renowned poet and an acclaimed academic, biographer and novelist. His works include Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography), Dangerous Play (which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Natural Causes (which won the Dylan Thomas Prize), The Custom’s House, Peace Talks, The Cinder Path, Coming Home, In the Blood, Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets, Essex Clay and the novels The Invention of Dr. Cake, Silver: Return to Treasure Island and The New World.