Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Horn Player, and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.
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Bloomsbury presents Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble. Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. 'Like a dropped acorn,' she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway th... SEE MORE