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Welcome to the Sceptre site
Here you’ll find superbly written fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb you but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking, stimulating, surprising and enlightening. Perennial favourites such as Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, for example, a breathtakingly original exploration of humanity’s will to power, or Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s The Cloudspotter’s Guide, as beguiling, inspiring and informative a book on clouds as you could wish for under the sun. Our authors, who have won prizes from the Booker to the Prix Goncourt, come from around the globe and cover a great range of themes and subjects. What they have in common is skill, talent, intelligence and imagination, a passion for the written word and a belief in the value of literature. Read on to find out about their new and upcoming titles and check out the links for related features, news, author events and details of all Sceptre books – more words, words, glorious words!
Carole Welch, Sceptre publisher
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Feature
When I was 25.
In Sceptre's 25th year, Booker-shortlisted author Clare Morrall writes about her own 25th year.
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News
Pure Victory!
Andrew Miller's PURE is the Costa Book of the Year.
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Feature
The first manuscript, the Amstrad printer, a Sunday in the garden, the twelve photocopies
Costa winner Andrew Miller's literary agent, Simon Trewin, on how it all began...
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Author
Thoughts on being 25...
In honour of Sceptre's 25th Anniversary, we have asked our authors to write bite-sized pieces on the subject of 25.
First, this week, is Costa Book of the Year Award winner and author of the resplendent PURE, Andrew Miller.
At 25
I left university and married a girl I'd met at a party eight months earlier. Our first (and last) home was a small flat in Bristol. She worked as a gardener; I worked as an agency nurse looking after elderly folk in their houses at night. Some mornings, as I came back from my shift and she was heading out for her gardens, we crossed on Brunel's suspension bridge high above the muddy Avon. Then, my head full of ticking clocks and armchairs, hers with whatever she had dreamt of alone in our bed, we greeted each other almost as strangers and had, it seemed, to lean out of separate clouds to kiss.
(copyright Andrew Miller, 2011)
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Feature
Amor Towles on Rules of Civility
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew...
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Feature
Jenn Ashworth in Sunday Times Culture
Sceptre author Jenn Ashworth on the journey from schoolgirl truant to hot young novelist.
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