Name: Dear Historian
SKU: 64780334
Price: 855.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Joff Winterhart

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Author

Joff Winterhart

Year

2026

Pages

192

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

27.6x20.5x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781787332669

Dear Historian

Joff Winterhart (Author) · Jonathan Cape · Hardcover

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Delivery: 18 Sep - 28 Sep

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Synopsis "Dear Historian"

“One of the most talented graphic novelists in the UK” ZADIE SMITHAt this point in her life, septuagenarian Margaret is particular about the things she likes. These include looking out of train windows, graveyards in the rain, an afternoon sherry. But most of all, it is her lifelong subject, the obscure 17th century polymath J.W Preece, who she has devoted her life to studying. Margaret doesn’t like: drawing attention to herself, extravagant behaviour and television. When she meets a young history TV producer, Lucy, they form a tentative bond, despite Margaret’s reluctance to be drawn into the media world. Several decades Margaret’s junior, heartbroken and unsure of herself, Lucy finds curious new inspiration as she falls under the spell of Margaret’s passions. With inimitable sensitivity and humour, cult-favourite graphic novelist Joff Winterhart returns with an irresistible portrait of two women navigating their age gap, loss, self-made-celebrity-historians, and bad knees…“Just when I thought I couldn’t love Joff Winterhart more, along came Dear Historian. It has all the wry humanity and keen eye for detail that won Driving Short Distances and Days of the Bagnold Summer such passionate fans” PATICK GALE“Even in the prose aisles, you'd be hard-pressed to find a piece of literary fiction as nuanced and beautiful as this.” VULTURE, on Other People