#238 Rare 1st edition hardback of the multi award-winning novel, The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer, signed by the author with a personalised inscription.

An amazing chance to win a very rare, 1st edition hardback of the ground-breaking, award-winning novel, signed and personalised by the author.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013

WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014

WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014

‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’

There are books you can’t stop reading, which keep you up all night.

There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life and make them vividly real.

There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days.

The Shock of the Fall is all of these books.

The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man’s descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.

About the author:

Nathan Filer is a critically acclaimed author of fiction and non-fiction. This is chance to own a rare 1st edition of his debut novel, The Shock of the Fall (2013). This story of a young man grieving the loss of his brother was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. It won the Costa Book of the Year, the Betty Trask Prize, the National Book Award for Popular Fiction and the Writers' Guild Award for Best First Novel. The author will add a personalised inscription, if requested.