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Lloyd Jones

Award-winning novelist Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt in New Zealand and graduated from Victoria University. He has worked as a journalist and covered Papua New Guinea's blockade of Bougainville during the 1990s, the setting for his bestselling Mister Pip. Jones has received awards including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial fellowship in 1988, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize (2003) and the Montana New Zealand Book Award (2001) for The Book of Fame. In 2007 Jones won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Mister Pip, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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Title:

Mister Pip

Written by:

Lloyd Jones 

Read by:

Susan Lyons 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

7 

Duration:

7 hours 22 minutes 

Published:

July 28 2018 

Available Date:

July 28 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489450241 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; New Zealand Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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Winner The Commonwealth Writer's Prize / Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific Region) 2007
Shortlisted The Man Booker Prize 2007

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island embattled by internal strife.

After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's island, there comes a time when all the white people have left. Only Mr Watts remains, and he wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley; the kids call him Popeye behind his back. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons, and no books left to learn from – except for Mr Watts's battered copy of Great Expectations, 'by my friend Mr Dickens'. As Mr Watts stands before the class and reads, Dickens's hero, Pip, starts to come alive in Matilda's imagination. Soon he has become as real to her as her own family, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun. But Matilda is not the only one who believes in Pip. And on an island at war, the power of the imagination can be a dangerously provocative thing. A dazzling achievement, Mister Pip is a love song to the power of storytelling. It is about belonging and losing one's way, about love, grief and memory, and it shows how books can change our lives forever.

'Mister Pip is a poignant and impressive work which can take its place alongside the classical novels of adolescence'.'
The Times Literary Supplement

''It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff ...'
The Times

'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm of post-colonial literature, hybridising the narratives of back and white races to create a new and resonant fable ...'
The Observer