Michael Nath is a British author and academic in the field of

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. His first novel, ''La Rochelle'' (2010), was shortlisted for the 2011

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for Fiction. His second, ''British Story: A Romance'' (2014), was a ''

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'' Book of the Year. It was described by ''

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'' as "a wonderful exercise in novelistic virtuosity, strange and beautiful." His most recent novel, ''The Treatment'', (Quercus, 2020), was a critical success: ''

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'' (Michael Donkor: "it is the voices and the language that make this novel such a triumph"); '' iPaper'' (Sarah Hughes: "His writing is addictive, sometimes strange, often beautiful"); '' Arts Desk'' ("A London novel to join the greats"); ''

'' (Paul Simon: ''"''beautifully vulgar"); '' Tablet'' (hailed by AN Wilson: "Some of the most interesting dialogue I’ve read in years … a fantastic book"); ''

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'' (Anthony Cummings: "a maverick project that defies comparison"). In ''

'',

David Peace David Peace (born 1967) is an English writer. Best known for his UK-set novels Red Riding Quartet (1999–2002), '' GB84'' (2004), '' The Damned Utd'' (2006), and '' Red or Dead'' (2013), Peace was named one of the Best of Young British Nove ...

selected it as "The Book I Wish I’d Written". Ardal O’Hanlon recently selected it as a favourite novel (Hatchards Q&A). It was also one of ''iPaper's'', the 40 Best Books of 2020; a ''

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'' Best Crime Novel of 2020; Novel of the Year in the ''

''; a Best Book of 2020, '' Arts Desk''; and ''

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'' Crime Club Paperback of the week. ''The Treatment'' has acquired a reputation: "Publishers should be less risk-averse. Look at �� ''The Treatment'' by Michael Nath; if novels are going to survive, novelists have a responsibility to push the boundaries." [

] Nath is presently working on a novel about The Fall (band), The Fall. Nath is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster,

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specialising in Literary modernism, modernism and

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; his work has been featured by the

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. Nath lives in

with his wife, the neuroscientist

Sarah Tabrizi Sarah Joanna Tabrizi FMedSci Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS is a British neurology, neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration, particularly Huntington's disease. She is a Professor and Joint Head of the Department of Neu ...

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