Identification points are listed only where two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 22 Oct 2026.
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Terrorist was first published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006 (310 pages); that is the true first. The first British edition came out the same year from Hamish Hamilton in London, also 310 pages. A Knopf or New York title page marks the American first, not the British one. The British Library and Open Library both record the 2006 Hamish Hamilton issue under two ISBNs, 0 241 14351 9 and 0 241 14355 1. The ISIS large print edition (Oxford, 2007) is a later issue.
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Hamish Hamilton, London, in 2006.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 22 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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