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'A genuine masterpiece' Observer 'Spectacular' Maggie O'Farrell
'Beautiful' Hilary Mantel 'Fascinating... bold and masterful' Max
Porter The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award
winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. Doc
Wright could be two steps or two miles from his team. In an ice
storm, distance loses meaning. No one can see. No one answers their
radio. All he can do is keep going, but something has gone wrong
inside his head. Back home, he is the only one who can explain what
happened to them in Antarctica. But after what changed on the ice,
everything has lost its meaning. Now his wife, Anna, must become
his carer. Now he must find a new way to be in the world. All he
can do is try to tell his story - even if words fail him. 'The most
gripping piece of writing I've read in a long time: Sit. Read.
Applaud' Jarvis Cocker 'Extraordinarily tense and atmospheric'
Telegraph 'Exceptional... I absolutely loved it' David Nicholls,
author of Sweet Sorrow 'Gripping, moving, magnificent' Kamila
Shamsie, author of Home Fire A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR * A
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of
the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light
on the human experience - classics which will endure for
generations to come. On a street in a town in the North of England,
ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday
existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows... A young
man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An
old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a
terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That
this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who
saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that
those who witness it will be altered for ever. Jon McGregor's first
novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in
the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama.
Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, If Nobody Speaks of
Remarkable Things is an astonishing debut.
Risky in conception, hip and yet soulful, this is a prose poem of a novel -- intense, lyrical, and highly evocative -- with a mystery at its center, which keeps the reader in suspense until the final page. In a tour de force that could be described as Altmanesque, we are invited into the private lives of the residents of a quiet urban street in England over the course of a single day. In delicate, intricately observed closeup, we witness the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse community: the man with painfully scarred hands who tried in vain to save his wife from a burning house and who must now care for his young daughter alone; a group of young clubgoers just home from an all-night rave, sweetly high and mulling over vague dreams; the nervous young man at number 18 who collects weird urban junk and is haunted by the specter of unrequited love. The tranquillity of the street is shattered at day's end when a terrible accident occurs. This tragedy and an utterly surprising twist provide the momentum for the book. But it is the author's exquisite rendering of the ordinary, the everyday, that gives this novel its freshness, its sense of beauty, wonder, and hope. Rarely does a writer appear with so much music and poetry -- so much vision -- that he can make the world seem new.
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Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall, Irenosen Okojie, Chris Power, Jessie Greengrass, …
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WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM
AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE On a street in a town in
the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions
of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting
windows... A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not
even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby
bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early
summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only
poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the
local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for
ever. Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories
and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable
human panorama. Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, If
Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is an astonishing debut.
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN
FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE
YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of
Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives
haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this
century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at
the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the
search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up
roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually
quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows
milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made,
sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing
girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. An
extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13
explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human
gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks
of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside. WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA
NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE
GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'A rare and dazzling feat of art' George Saunders,
author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'McGregor writes with such grace and
precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he
leaves behind all other writers of his generation' Sarah Hall,
author of The Wolf Border 'Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary -
the way it's structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon
McGregor lets the characters breathe and age' Roddy Doyle, author
of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE David Carter cannot help but
wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he
once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could
live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival
could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words
spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the
knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.
WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between
Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned
apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies
found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of
a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping
vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as
their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and
cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece
through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the
deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies;
Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who
discovers the body and futiley searches for his other friends to
share the news of Robert's death; Laura, Robert's daughter, who
stumbles into the junky's life when she moves in with her father
after years apart; Heather, who has her own place for the first
time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all
the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks,
hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by a stronger need, and
the havoc wrought by drugs, distress, and the disregard of the
wider world. These invisible people live in a parallel reality, out
of reach of basic creature comforts, like food and shelter. In
their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more
respect than they ever were in their short lives. Intense,
exhilarating, and shot through with hope and fury, Even the Dogs is
an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society - littered
with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption.
How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the
governing drives, our two greatest themes. In this provocative and
haunting collection of short stories, acclaimed writers probe the
nature of, and connection between two of the most powerful,
exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human
experience: sex and death.
Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection
of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers. A man
builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming
flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A
boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you
imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set
in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is
dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate,
dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried
and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where
much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.
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Sex & Death - Stories (Hardcover, Main)
Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs; Contributions by Kevin Barry, Ali Smith, Jon McGregor
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How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the
governing drives, our two greatest themes. In this provocative,
haunting and sexy collection of short stories, a group of acclaimed
writers from across the globe probe the nature of, and connection
between, two of the most powerful, exhilarating and terrifying
forces that define and shape the human experience: sex and death.
Here we see the events that mark the lives of the young and old, of
men and women, of those meeting only briefly and of others
reflecting on shared pasts. In these intense, often traumatic and
sometimes humorous interactions, we are confronted not just with
our urges and anxieties, but with the very limits of mortality and
morbidity. Honest, compassionate and psychologically astute, the
stories in Sex & Death are daring in their approaches to the
form and relentless in their pursuit of what it is to be human.
Featuring stories by: Kevin Barry Lynn Coady Ceridwen Dovey Robert
Drewe Damon Galgut Petina Gappah Sarah Hall Peter Hobbs Yiyun Li
Alexander MacLeod Ben Marcus Jon McGregor Guadalupe Nettel Courttia
Newland Taiye Selasi Ali Smith Wells Tower Alan Warner Claire Vaye
Watkins Clare Wigfall
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