The Industry of Souls
Author(s): Martin Booth
Arrested for spying in the early 1950s and presumed dead by the British Government, Alexander Bayliss, survives 20 years in a Soviet labour camp. Eventually freed he has no reason to return to the West and instead finds his way to the village of his best friend at the camp. Now, on his 80th birthday Russia is changed. Communism has evaporated and he must make a choice, perhaps for the first time in his life
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Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1998.
Martin Booth has written eleven novels and two children's novels. Film options have been sold on four of these. His most cosmmercially successful novel was Hiroshima Joe (19986) which sold more than 350,000 copies. In addition to his fiction Martin Booth has written six non-fiction books including most recently The Doctor, The Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle - a biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - for Hodder & Stoughton and Opium: A History for Simon & Schuster. He has written several documentary wildlife programmes for the BBC including a number for Wildlife on One - narrated by David Attenborough. An inveterate traveller he frequently broadcasts for the BBC on From our Own Correspondent and is a specialist contributor to the Sunday Times on South East Asian matters.
General Fields
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- : Dewi Lewis Publishing
- : Dewi Lewis Publishing
- : 0.295
- : 31 December 1987
- : 200mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Martin Booth
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.914
- : very good
- : 256
