Polly Samson
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English - April 11, 2021 12:00 - 41.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBooks Arts monocle music monocle magazine tyler brûlé culture current affairs design business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Polly Samson is a UK novelist and lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to seven tracks on Pink Floyd’s hit album, ‘The Division Bell’. The former journalist has written a number of critically acclaimed short stories and novels, the latest of which is ‘A Theatre for Dreamers’, a story of discovery set against the beautiful backdrop of Hydra, the Greek island fabled for its hedonism in the 1960s. The book was widely hailed as one of the best novels of 2020.