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The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily
St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and
possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should
run. 'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of
The Power 'Ingenious' - Guardian Lives separated by time and space
have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from
home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a
world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries,
between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together
their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question
everything you thought you knew to be true. From the award-winning
author of Station Eleven A Best Book of 2022 - Guardian, Oprah
Daily, Barack Obama 'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times 'Transcendent' - Wall
Street Journal
A dreamily atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of
civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is
now an HBO Max original TV series. What was lost in the collapse:
almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on
stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a
deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be
the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the
Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that
have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world
is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve?
And how far would you go to protect it? The New York Times
Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Celebrating fifty years of Picador
books, Station Eleven is part of the Picador Collection, a series
showcasing the best of modern literature.
'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' -
George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max
original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the
Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for
Fiction National Book Awards Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone,
but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous
actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a
lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North
America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later
Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs
Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the
collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If
civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would
you go to protect it?
Emily St. John Mandel, the award-winning author of Station Eleven,
returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the
reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso
performance and an enormously exciting offering from one of our
most remarkable writers. In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St.
Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In
British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of
the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness,
the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The
experience shocks him to his core. Two centuries later Olive
Llewelyn, a famous writer, is traveling all over Earth, far away
from her home in the second moon colony. Within the text of Olive's
bestselling novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin
for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the
trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a
detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an
anomaly in time, he uncovers a series of lives upended: the exiled
son of an aristocrat driven to madness, a writer trapped far from
home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the
Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do
something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the
universe. Sea of Tranquility is a novel that investigates the idea
of parallel worlds and possibilities, that plays with the very line
along which time should run. Perceptive and poignant about art, and
love, and what we must do to survive, it is incredibly compelling.
From the author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass
Hotel is the story of the lives caught up in two very different
tragedies: a woman disappearing from a container ship, and a
massive Ponzi scheme imploding in New York. 'A perfect
post-lockdown read' - Sunday Times 'Elegant, haunting' - The Times
'A damn fine novel . . . evocative and immersive' - George R. R.
Martin Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel
Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the
hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life
together. That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the
windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.'
Leon Prevant, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel
bar and is shaken to his core. When Alkaitis's investment fund is
revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, Leon loses his retirement savings in
the fallout, but Vincent seemingly walks away unscathed. Until, a
decade later, she disappears from the deck of one of Leon's ships .
. .
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.
Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Lilia
has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her
inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious
shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves
restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along
the way. But then she meets Eli, and he's not ready to let her go,
not without a fight. Gorgeously written, charged with tension and
foreboding, Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal is the
story of a life spent at the centre of a criminal investigation. It
is a novel about identity, love and amnesia, the depths and limits
of family bonds and - ultimately - about the nature of obsession.
How far would you go for someone you love? The Lola Quartet: Jack,
Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of
their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last
concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin
sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and
who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted
back to a secretive past he didn't realize he'd left behind. But
that photo has set off a cascade of dangerous consequences and, as
one by one the members of the Lola Quartet are reunited, a
terrifying story emerges: of innocent mistakes, of secrecy and of a
life lived on the run. Filled with love, music and thwarted dreams,
Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a thrilling novel about
how the errors of the past can threaten the future.
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition
set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author
of three highly acclaimed previous novels.
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies
onstage during a production of "King Lear." Hours later, the world
as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in
time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in
the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony
roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac,
spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect
five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's
first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the
Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous
self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender,
"Station Eleven" tells a story about the relationships that sustain
us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we
know it.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven After
shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin,
Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for
himself. But then a routine security check brings his past crashing
back towards him. His marriage and career in ruins, Anton finds
himself in Italy with one last job from his cousin. But there is
someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's
Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a
people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation
against her will. Taut and thrilling, it is a novel about identity
and loyalty, and the things we are willing to sacrifice for love.
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Out of the Ruins (Paperback)
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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology of 18 stories: the end of the
world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John
Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, Clive Barker, China Mieville, Charlie
Jane Anders and more. This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction
asks, what would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all
comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we
save it? Featuring stories from China Mieville, Emily St John
Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders,
Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern,
Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron
Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso,
Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas and D.R.G. Sugawara.
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