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Jem Poster is the author of a poetry collection, BROUGHT TO LIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2001), and a previous novel, COURTING SHADOWS, published by Sceptre in 2002. He holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2003 RIFLING PARADISE won an Arts Council Writers' Award for a work in progress.
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- PublisherLondon: Sceptre
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0340822945
- ISBN 13 9780340822944
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages325
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