Once Again Assembled Here
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 162774-82235-1282
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Picador
- ISBN
- 9780330543545
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Once Again Assembled Here is a novel of personal and political betrayal, cast in the form of a thriller spanning the period 1939 to the early 21st century. The centre of the book is Blake’s a minor provincial public school, to which the hero, Stephen Maxwell returns under a cloud to teach history. The murder of his mentor coincides with a local parliamentary by-election at which an old boy of Blake’s the disgraced General Allingham, is standing for a neo-Fascist party, which has also put up a candidate in the school’s mock election. British fascism and the Second World War reach forward into the book’s present, with violent consequences, narrated by Maxwell in his retirement as he writes both the official and the unofficial history of the school. Maxwell, a collector of Graham Greene’s novels, is acutely aware of the way literary precedents are feeding back into ‘real’ experience, at the same time as he encounters a genuine and insatiable malevolence among his colleagues. The book is ‘an English story’.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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