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James Hawes (born 1960) is a British novelist and popular historian who has been an official bestseller in both genres. He has also written theatrically released screen adaptations of two of his works.
James Hawes. Click to buy. Based on the landmark BBC series Art That Made Us. Explore the history of the British isles through 80 extraordinary creations – from Beowulf and the Bayeux Tapestry to Banksy, Stormzy, and beyond...
James Hawes has 35 books on Goodreads with 24864 ratings. James Hawes’s most popular book is The Shortest History of Germany.
James Hawes has established himself over the last decade as one of Britain’s leading comic novelists. Described by The Daily Telegraph as 'a poet of despair', and, since the publication of Speak for England (2005), his fifth novel, consecrated by The Guardian as satirist laureate, he has been compared with everyone from Tom Sharpe to Evelyn ...
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James Hawes is the author of The Shortest History of Germany (3.72 avg rating, 7391 ratings, 782 reviews, published 2017), The Shortest History of Englan...
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Writing Career. James has published six novels, all with Jonathan Cape. He turned to creative non-fiction with a Kafka anti-biography, Excavating Kafka (2008) which became the subject of a BBC documentary. In 2015, Englanders and Huns was shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political Books of the Year 2015.
James Hawes is the author of five novels, including A White Merc With Fins and White Powder, Green Light. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.
