Ghost Stations: Essays and Branchlines - Softcover

McGuinness, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909585513 ISBN 13: 9781909585515

Publisher: CB Editions, 2025

Synopsis

Patrick McGuinness - poet, novelist, translator, editor, critic and speaker of several languages - writes in Ghost Stations about his personal history, the unofficial histories of places in which he has lived, and some of the lesser known byways of European literature and art. He re-opens branchlines closed for ‘efficiency’. He notices the extraordinary hiding in plain sight - in the local, the mundane. His book is an act of resistance and modest, undogmatic revelation.

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About the Author

Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968, of a Belgian mother and a father from North Tyneside’s ship-building community. His books include two novels, The Last Hundred Days (2011), longlisted for the Man Booker prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and Throw Me to the Wolves (2019), winner of the Encore Award; a memoir, Other People’s Countries (2014), winner of the Duff Cooper Award and the Wales Book of the Year; and three books of poems, most recently Blood Feather (2023). He has also written a book about the Oxford behind the university city, Real Oxford, several academic books, and is the translator of several books from French and Spanish. With Stephen Romer, he was awarded the 2024 Scott Moncrieff Prize for their translation of The Day’s Ration: Selected Poems by Gilles Ortlieb. In 2023, he was awarded the Prix Triennal du rayonnement des lettres belges for his contribution to Belgian literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: CB Editions
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909585513
• ISBN 13: 9781909585515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226