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	Amazon.co.uk: Sweet Thames: Books: Matthew Kneale
		Matthew Kneale seemed a relative unknown before his "English Passengers" was short-listed for the Booker Prize and named the Whitbread Book of the Year, but with his recent climb to fame has come acknowledgement of a shining talent that's far from new.
		Kneale evokes Victorian London in all its complexity, chronicling the political and social issues at stake at the time, as well as bringing to life the city's inhabitants.
		Mr Kneale paints a pretty picture of London of old, but his characters are often two dimensional and some of his plot twists are contrived and not convincing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sweet-Thames-Matthew-Kneale/dp/0140296638 (1647 words)

	stukgelezen.nl archief-historische literatuur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De roman van Matthew Kneale speelt zich af op Tasmanie en een schip op weg naar dat eiland in 1857.
		Het eind van het boek is op zijn zachtst gezegd verassend en een geweldig goede vondst.
		Matthew Kneale studeerde geschiedenis en werd op 8-jarige leeftijd gegrepen door een documentaire over de relaties tussen zwart en blank op Tasmanie.
	www.stukgelezen.nl /archiefhistorisch.html (1225 words)

	Matthew Kneale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Kneale (born November 24, 1960) is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
		Kneale is the son of the writers Nigel Kneale and Judith Kerr.
		His other novels include Whore Banquets, (1987 - winner of the 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, which was also won by his father in 1950), Inside Rose's Kingdom (1989) and Sweet Thames (1992 - winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Kneale (168 words)

	Stolen paradise
		Kneale's reliance on his cast of voices is crucial because - in contrast to the hierarchy and trampling instincts of empire - it establishes a level playing field of sorts.
		For Kneale, the challenge lies in establishing the plausibility of Peevay as a witness for his people and in finding for him a voice, authentic for its time and place yet able to communicate to a contemporary audience.
		Kneale's masterstroke here is to have the captain himself an outsider with a well-founded grudge against his empire-fuelled English passengers.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1818/18180750.htm (1723 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: English Passengers
		Kneale tells his story from the standpoint of 20 or so Victorian narrators: a Manx sea captain, a half-breed Tasmanian aborigine, his homicidal mother, a proto-Nazi physician, several demented evangelical clergymen, hardened convicts and their guards.
		Kneale shows his erudition in a number of fields like Tasmanian history, the Manx dialect, aboriginal psychology, and the crackpot racist theories of a mid-19th century physician.
		The irony of the novel is that Kneale tells his tale, too, with a historical determination.
	www.bookpage.com /0003bp/fiction/english_passengers.html (375 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Tales from the house of Mog
		Skip a few decades and Matthew Kneale, now 44, is back from his home in Rome to talk about Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance, his first book since his novel The English Passengers won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 2001.
		And because young Matthew (middle name, Nicolas) was blond-haired just like his fictional doppelganger, because his family home, and the Barnes of his childhood, is already immortalised in books, perhaps it’s not too surprising that he too turned to writing fiction.
		Although Kerr died 12 years before Matthew Kneale was born, you can, says his daughter, see his love of history and travel in her own son’s fiction.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=268842005 (1955 words)

	Matthew Kneale: 'Writing novels is just like cooking' - Independent Online Edition > Features
		Matthew Kneale speaks several languages, is advised by experts and writes in voices diverse and realistic.
		Matthew Kneale was born in 1960, to Nigel Kneale, the Manx screenwriter responsible for the Quatermass series, and Judith Kerr, the author of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Tiger Who Came For Tea.
		Matthew Kneale is a novelist for whom doing things properly is obviously important.
	arts.independent.co.uk /books/features/article2628952.ece (1644 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Matthew Kneale
		Matthew Kneale received high praise in 2000 for the award-winning novel English Passengers, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
		Kneale, whose most recent book is the short story collection Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance, is a keen traveler who has lived in Japan, Canada, and Italy, and has journeyed extensively across the globe, visiting seven continents and walking in mountains from New Guinea to Ethiopia, Patagonia to Pakistan.
		Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=15967 (255 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Whitbread victory for Kneale
		Matthew Kneale has won the Whitbread Book of the Year for his novel English Passengers.
		In accepting the £22,500 prize Matthew Kneale expressed his admiration for Sage and sadness that she was not present at the ceremony.
		Kneale, who lost out on the Booker Prize to Canadian author Margaret Atwood, had earlier won the Whitbread Novel of the Year award for English Passengers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1133482.stm (467 words)

	Matthew Kneale (Bold Type Magazine)
		In some ways, Matthew Kneale's English Passengers is just an old-fashioned nautical adventure novel, somewhere comfortably between the C.S Forrester Hornblower novels he cites as inspiration and Andrea Barrett's The Voyage of the Narwhal.
		It is a novel told in at least twenty different voices, but you're driven through the book by its sheer narrative momentum, by the excitement of the plot.
		This is because Kneale is, at heart, a truly great storyteller, most interested in keeping you in the thrall of his story--thrilled, nervous, excited, laughing, on the edge of your seat, or rolling on the floor--and never allowing his other talents, charms, and ambitions to get it the way of that.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0400/kneale (234 words)

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