Authors: Paul Watkins
Thunder God (32 page)
Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School, at Eton and at Yale. His novels include
Night Over Day Over Night, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, The Promise of Night, Archangel, The Story of My Disappearance
and
The Forger
. He has also written about his experiences at public school, in
Stand Before Your God
. He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996, and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA.
First published in 2004
by Faber & Faber Limited
Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London
WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2014
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