Harris’s Requiem
  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099591962
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.99

Harris’s Requiem

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A novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia', Booker-Prize winning author Stanley Middleton. Rejacked and reissued in Windmill.

From Booker-Prize winning novelist Stanley Middleton.

Thomas Harris is on the cusp of success as a classical composer with a growing reputation.

When his father, a coal miner, dies Thomas decides to write a requiem for him which is also a thinly veiled attack on the powerful elite. In spite of opposition he finally succeeds in getting his work performed but how will the critics react?
  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099591962
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Stanley Middleton

Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.

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Love In The Provinces
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Praise for Harris’s Requiem

Middleton is a born writer; unpretentious, discerning, intelligent, and virtually incapable of writing a duff sentence. He is the Chekhov of suburbia; I recommend him.

James Runcie, Daily Telegraph

As ever with Middleton, the content is quiet and undramatic but the treatment makes it highly readable… there is never a dull moment.

Sunday Times

Enlivening and heartening.

Times Literary Supplement

A sharp and faithful picture of middle-class provincial life.

New Statesman