{"product_id":"the-paper-lantern-by-will-burns-copy","title":"The Paper Lantern By Will Burns","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed narrator charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding in his middle-England hometown that have defined the lockdown period\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern\u003cstrong\u003e' Michael Hofmann, TLS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered' Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A book that speaks powerfully about what it is to be English and about the impact of coronavirus on our national psyche' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Will Burns is the new Defoe\u003cstrong\u003e' Adelle Stripe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister's Chequers Estate, an unnamed narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills. As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret valleys, to climate change and capitalism, The Paper Lantern creates a tangible, lived-in complicated rendering of a place, at the moment when the very sense of place itself is being questioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eBook Information\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePublished: 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eGenre: Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePages: 224\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eDimensions: 216 x 135mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Will Burns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52486414270774,"sku":"9781474624657","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/files\/Book-2025-07-30T141410.659.jpg?v=1753848866","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/the-paper-lantern-by-will-burns-copy","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}