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Green Ink: THE TIMES 'Fascinating' Books To Look Out For 2025

Stephen May

  • Stephen May’s last book, Sell Us the Rope, was praised by Hilary Mantel and many others, and sold almost 4,000 copies TCM despite being published by a small publisher
  • His second novel, LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES!, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel in 2012
  • He is well known by literary editors and widely reviewed 
  • Like Sell Us the Rope, Green Ink takes a true historical story from the early 20th century, and gives it fictional life – it is funny, irreverent and intelligent

  • Classification : Historical Fiction
  • Pub Date : FEB 12, 2026
  • Imprint : Swift Press
  • Page Extent :
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781800754690
  • Price : INR 999
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Stephen May

Stephen May is the author of five novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and is a winner of the Media Wales Reader’s Prize. He has also written plays, as well as for television and film. He lives in West Yorkshire.

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