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James Hawes


James Hawes published six novels before turning to non-fiction. His books include The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England, which have sold more than half a million copies around the world. He has known Ireland since the 1970s, lectured for two years at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and is married to an Irishwoman.

Books by James Hawes

My Little Armalite

Set in the world that he has made his own - that of middle-class Englishmen struggling with the mortgage, low self-esteem and dreams of sash windows - this is Hawes at his sharpest and funniest.

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Speak For England

Deep in the jungle, a reality TV star stumbles across a miniature civilisation of plane crash survivors preserving a pocket of 1950s England within the wilderness. A rollicking satire about the old, the new and the English.

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White Powder, Green Light

'An amusing, garrulous satire on Soho media life' - Daily Mail

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