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Magnus Mills

Author of The Restraint of Beasts

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Magnus Mills lives in London. (Publisher Provided) Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His most recent novel, A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In, was published to great critical acclaim. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His title, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, made the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Restraint of Beasts… (more)
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Works by Magnus Mills
The Restraint of Beasts 984 copies, 29 reviews
All Quiet on the Orient Express (Author) 505 copies, 17 reviews
Three to See the King 371 copies, 14 reviews
The Scheme for Full Employment 348 copies, 9 reviews
Explorers of the New Century 263 copies, 11 reviews
The Maintenance of Headway 149 copies, 18 reviews
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in 113 copies, 8 reviews
The Forensic Records Society 90 copies, 7 reviews
The Field of the Cloth of Gold 58 copies, 4 reviews
Screwtop Thompson 50 copies, 1 review
Once in a Blue Moon 43 copies, 2 reviews
Only When the Sun Shines Brightly 40 copies, 1 review
Tales of Muffled Oars 8 copies
The Trouble With Sunbathers 8 copies, 1 review
The Cure for Disgruntlement 3 copies
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McSweeney's Issue 3: Windfall Republic (Contributor) 92 copies, 1 review
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1954
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Birmingham, England, UK
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Birmingham, England, UK (birth)
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
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Wolverhampton Polytechnic
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bus driver
fence builder
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David Miller (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
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