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David Hughes (27 July 1930 – 11 April 2005) was a British novelist. His best known works included The Pork Butcher (Constable, 1984) for which he was awarded the WH Smith Literary Award in 1985 and But for Bunter , published as The Joke of the Century in the United States.
David Hughes. David Hughes was a novelist who was reduced to tears by Souvenir, the film of his book The Pork Butcher. They were not tears of joy: ‘That was terrible, terrible,’ he said on leaving the cinema. Hughes, who died in 2005, was a newspaper film and theatre critic as well as a novelist – although Kingsley Amis questioned his ...
Apr 24, 2005 · By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. April 24, 2005. David Hughes, an English man of letters best known for exploring the individual's role in traumatic public events in his elegantly written novels ...
Apr 10, 2005 · in Alton, Hampshire, The United Kingdom. July 27, 1930. Died. April 10, 2005. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction. edit data. David Hughes was a British novelist. His best known works included The Pork Butcher (Constable, 1984) for which he was awarded the WH Smith Literary Award in 1985 and But for Bunter, published as The Joke of the ...
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David Hughes has 221 books on Goodreads with 2364 ratings. David Hughes’s most popular book is The Bible For Breakfast.
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Every novelist is an assembly of his own characters. Hughes (The Joke of the Century, 1986, etc.) here has the inspiration to make all of his characters himself.In this anti-story, he's his own publisher's literary editor, the coquettish Davina Darle...
