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Playthings
By Alex Pheby
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Paul Schreber is a man who wants to go home - but can't. He is a man crippled by an illness he doesn't understand - and sometimes doesn't even know he has. He's no condition to face the worst - but the worst keeps on happening to him. His family is disintegrating, past traumas are coming back to haunt him - and so are those troubling, seemingly laid-to-rest fears of persecution...
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Alex Pheby
ALEX PHEBY lives with his wife and two children in Scotland, and teaches at the University of Newcastle. Alex’s second novel, Playthings, was shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize. His third novel, Lucia, was joint winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize. Mordew, the first book in the Cities of the Weft trilogy, was selected as a Book of the Year by The Guardian, The I, Tor.com and Locus.
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