The Book of Fame
  • Published: 1 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780143018094
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00

The Book of Fame

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In 1905 a motley group of young New Zealand rugby players sets out by steamer on a journey to the other side of the world. The following year they are back, accorded a hero's welcome the like of which has never been seen in their country before. Their fame has spread before them across three continents.
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  • Published: 1 August 2001
  • ISBN: 9780143018094
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Lloyd Jones

Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand's best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children's books, his distinctive works including the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, Hand Me Down World, The Cage, The Fish, and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Kiriyama Writers' Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.

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Also by Lloyd Jones

A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)
Hand Me Down World
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
The Fish
Mister Pip
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
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Praise for The Book of Fame

Through his masterful retelling of the story of the 1905 All Blacks, Jones has gifted the nation with a powerful myth . . . Fashioning the simple spare speech of the ordinary New Zealander into beautifully crafted prose, he has written an instant New Zealand classic. — Spiro Zavos, Listener

Spiro Zavos, Listener

Lloyd Jones is an innovator. This book represents a new literary journey for this country. — Chris Laidlaw, Evening Post

Chris Laidlaw, Evening Post