Review

Nicholas Shakespeare returns to fiction with The Sandpit, a thriller set in Oxford

By Colin Steele
August 8 2020 - 12:00am
Nicholas Shakespeare. Picture: Gillian Johnson
Nicholas Shakespeare. Picture: Gillian Johnson
  • The Sandpit, by Nicholas Shakespeare. Havill Secker. $32.99.

There is quite a lot of Nicholas Shakespeare in John Dyer, the main character in The Sandpit, the author's first novel after a decade of writing non-fiction. Dyer previously featured in Shakespeare's 1995 novel, The Dancer Upstairs, subsequently filmed by John Malkovich.

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