Penulis: Rupert Thomson

„Wie ein Drehbuch von Borges für einen Film von Alfred Hitchcock.“ The Independent. Gaetano Zummo, vor Jahren durch Intrigen seines Bruders mit Schimpf aus dem heimatlichen Sizilien gejagt, wird 1691 …

Auf den Trümmern des Ersten Weltkriegs blühen in Europa die Traumwelten. Wer so tief in den Abgrund geschaut hat, sehnt sich nach Freiheit von allen hergebrachten Ordnungen. Das ist das Klima, in d …

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The objective of advertising is to change the behaviour of the consumer so they purchase more of the product. That, at any rate, is the theory. But Jimmy Lyle may have taken things a bit too far with …

On a bright spring day in Amsterdam a man goes out to buy a packet of cigarettes. He is a dancer – charismatic, talented and physically beautiful. What happens next takes him completely by surprise a …

In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her m …

‘A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement’ Sarah Waters’A beautiful and extraordinary book’ Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in …

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Rupert Thomson’s innovative and unsettling writing ranges from dystopian alternative futures to meditations on crime and cultural memory, and from historical fictions to explorations of contemporary …

Rupert Thomson’s innovative and unsettling writing ranges from dystopian alternative futures to meditations on crime and cultural memory, and from historical fictions to explorations of contemporary …

In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, …

It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment …

There were very few land burials in Moon Beach. It was considered old-fashioned, unhealthy and something that only happened to the poor. Instead the dead were buried in ocean cemeteries, twelve miles …

One of David Bowie’s 100 Must-Read Books of All Time It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. W …

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It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, …

At the turn of the century Th ophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sof a. Th o has travelled here to build a metal church designed by his mentor, the great eng …

One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyler is called to a mortuary in Suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child-killer. But in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killer’s presence begins to …

New Egypt is a village somewhere in the South of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretl …

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD PRIZE FOR FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE’His confident, spellbinding prose is jewelled with uncanny details, gliding along in language that strikes, unsettles, and …

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If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificial Everything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in it Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, at …