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James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Italy. His most recent novel, Cooking with Fernet Branca is published by Faber.

Selected bibliography

  • Cooking with Fernet Branca (2004)
  • Loving Monsters (2001)
  • America’s Boy: The Marcoses and the Philippines (1998)
  • Gerontius (1989)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Yearning for Polar Seas · 1 September 2005

subscriber-only content Diary: James Hamilton-Paterson on what’s happened to the sea · 23 September 2004

subscriber-only content Not Altogether Lost · 19 June 2003

  • Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley

subscriber-only content Forget the Klingons · 6 March 2003

  • Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
  • XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find It by Simon Goodwin and John Gribbin

With Only Passing Reference to the Earth · 22 August 2002

  • Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton

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