Divorcing Jack

Bateman, Colin

ISBN 10: 0006479030 / ISBN 13: 9780006479031

Published by HarperCollins, London, 1995

About this Item

London. Good with no dust jacket; Soft Cover; Harper Collins Pub; 1995; First . Edition. 0006479030 . Illustrated softcover wraps. Very good, minor wear to edges and slight creasing. First edition, signed by the author on the title page. This was Bateman's debut novel and first in the Dan Starkey Series. 282 pages; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Signed by Author . Good with no dust jacket; Soft Cover; Harper Collins Pub; 1995; First Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divorcing Jack
• Publisher: HarperCollins, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006479030
• ISBN 13: 9780006479031
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Editions, First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

About the Author

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the ‘County Down Spectator’, where he became the deputy editor until 1996. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and has received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994.