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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers, Dystopische roman, Science Fiction

Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de dystopische thriller over AI. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Bantam de dystopische toekomstthriller en sciencefiction van Thomas R. Weaver, de Amerikaanse schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review en recensie

  • “A stunning story and a remarkable vision, all incredibly well told. As modern as tomorrow and even more frightening. Be afraid – very afraid – of where we are and of what is coming.” (Terry Hayes)
  • “A richly-imagined, fast-paced exploration of an uncertain future where technology promises to serve as our saviour and rule as our master. An all too human story of a desperate man in search of the truth.” (Michael Cordy)

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom

Artificial Wisdom

  • Auteur: Thomas R. Weaver (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse dystopische thriller, sciencefiction
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgave: Bantam / Del Rey Books
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de dystopische sciencefictionthriller van Thomas R. Weaver

Who would you trust with the future?

The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution: one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse.

The final two candidates are ex-US President Lockwood, and Solomon, the world’s first political artificial intelligence.

As whispers of a global conspiracy emerge, investigative journalist Marcus Tully find himself at the centre of it – when Solomon’s creator turns up murdered.

Overnight, one investigation becomes two, and it’s not just the result of the election that’s at stake but the future of the species. Suddenly humanity must make an impossible choice – between salvation, or freedom.

Thomas R. Weaver writes stories about tomorrow to help make sense of today. A tech entrepreneur turned author, he holds a degree in Computer Science but never expected to actually use it in his career. After spending years exploring how technology could transform experiences in the places outside of the home and the office, he founded a tech startup in the restaurant hospitality space, which was later acquired by Just Eat Takeaway. Exiting in 2018–2019 left him with no more excuses not to pursue a long-held dream: writing fiction. Despite vowing he had enough grey hair already and he’d never to run another startup, he continues to build a portfolio of interesting new ideas with his former cofounder, backed by a major Silicon Valley tech accelerator. Outside of spending time with his family, he loves to cook, draw, paint and lose at online bullet chess. He loves a great movie or TV series, and collects more books than time allows to read.

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Nick Fuller Googins – The Frequency of Living Things

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things review, recensie en informatie nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books de tweede roman van Nick Fuller Googins, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Van het boek is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things review en recensie

  • “This emotionally resonant family saga celebrates the potent bonds between mothers, daughters and sisters.” (The Washington Post)
  • “A stirring family epic.” (Harper’s Bazaar)
  • “A masterfully written family saga, an ode to how our mothers, daughters and sisters often understand us better than we do ourselves. I would gladly spend forever with the fiercely loving, bitingly tender Tayloe sisters and their complicated, heroic mother. Heartbreaking yet filled with hope, Googins’s sophomore novel cements him as one of our greatest contemporary novelists.” (Cat Shook)

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things

The Frequency of Living Things

  • Auteur: Nick Fuller Googins (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de tweede roman van Nick Fuller Googins

A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness.

Josie may be the youngest sister, but she takes care of everyone. She is the left-brained scientist to her twin sisters’ right-brained artistic chaos. She makes sure their rent gets paid on time, they make their therapy appointments, and has also been their de-facto band manager since she was a teenager. When Ara, her middle sister (by a few minutes), calls from jail, it isn’t exactly a surprise, and Josie knows exactly how to snap into action.

Emma is the quintessential frontwoman, complete with looks and attitude. But the success of The Twins’ first (and only) album—gold records, Grammy nominations, and diehard fans—is two decades behind her. Hiding under the surface of her swagger is a long-held guilt that has turned her into her sister’s enabler. Emma knows she needs Ara’s creative genius and thinks a jailhouse record could be just the thing to get Ara her freedom and their band back on the main stage.

Ara is detoxing, not only from her opioid habit but also from her family. The truth is, as crazy as it sounds, she’s not in a hurry to get out of lock-up. In the most unlikely and dangerous of places, this could be her chance to face the demons of her past and disentangle herself from her family.

Bertie, who raised her three daughters as a single mother, has always taught them that family won’t always be around to take care of you. A former defense attorney and perennial do-gooder, she’s committed to taking care of everyone less fortunate even if that means putting her girls’ needs second. But now Bertie must decide if she should reenter her daughters’ lives in their greatest time of need—or watch to see if the resilience she’s taught them will help carry them through.

A story both intimate and sweeping, The Frequency of Living Things explores the timeless question of how our individual destinies are intertwined with our family, our siblings, and our history no matter how we try to untangle ourselves from them.

Nick Fuller Googins has published short stories and essays in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine and works as an elementary school teacher. He is the author of The Great Transition and The Frequency of Living Things.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, Western roman

Beste western romans

Beste western romans en wildwestromans. Waaraan kun je  en western roman of wildwestroman herkennen? Welke schrijvers, schrijfsters of auteurs hebben dit soort romans geschreven? Wat zijn de beste romans over het Wilde Westen van Amerika?

Waaraan kun je een western roman of wildwestroman herkennen?

Het antwoord op deze vraag is vrij simpel. Dit soort romans kenmerken zich doordat het verhaal zich afspeelt in het Wilde Westen van Amerika tussen de jaren 1860 tot 1900. Er zijn trouwens ook romans die je min of meer tot het genre kunt rekeningen maar zich toch later in de Verenigde Staten afspelen maar omdat ze verder alle kenmerken in zich dragen toch tot het genre worden gerekend.

Wat zijn de beste western romans en wildwestroman?

Dit type roman dat in het Engels vaak wordt aangeduid met Western fiction of Western novel, ontstond aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw met de opkomst van de zogenaamde dime novels, in het Nederlands vaak aangeduid met drie stuiver romans. in de Verenigde Staten. Dit waren vrij korte en goedkoop geproduceerde boekjes die vooral dienden als vermaak. Wat later in de twintigste eeuw gingen ook bekende schrijvers western romans schrijven waardoor de kwaliteit omhoog ging. De plot van deze boeken kreeg meer gelaagdheid en de karakters meer diepgang.

Willa Cather The Song of the Lark first editionWilla Cather – The Song of the Lark

Amerikaanse roman uit 1915, The Prairie Trilogy 2
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift – her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past…lees verder >

Elmore Leonard Valdez Is Coming reviewElmore Leonard – Valdez Is Coming

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1970
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
Valdez is Coming is a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer – and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever…lees verder >

Cormac McCarthy The Border TrilogyCormac McCarthy – The Border Trilogy

Amerikaanse westernromans
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
The Crossing (1994)
Cities of the Plain (1998)
Nederlandse vertaling: De grenstrilogie
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
De jongemannen in deze drie klassieke meesterwerken groeien op in de jaren dertig op ranches in het zuidwesten van de VS. Aan de andere kant van de grens lonkt Mexico, met zijn desolate schoonheid en zijn wrede belofte van een plek waar dromen met bloed bekostigd worden…lees verder >

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove Western novel from 1985 first editionLarry McMurtry – Lonsesome Dove

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1971
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1986
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a perilous cattle drive across the sprawling wilderness, from Texas to Montana. Bound by duty and hardened by the relentless frontier, their shared journey embodies the enduring spirit of the West. The saga paints the American West with a palette of nuanced characters, from heroes to outlaws, in a narrative that is as unflinching as it is captivating…lees verder >

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose review en recensieWallace Stegner – Angle of Repose

Amerikaanse westernroman uit 1971
Nederlandse vertaling: De fundamenten van ons leven
Winnaar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1972
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead…lees verder >

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: Colorado (T. Brandon, Unsplash)

Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Indianen, Native American, Verhalen

Morgan Talty – Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review, recensie en informatie verhalen van de Native American en Penobscot Indian Nation schrijver. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Night of the Living Rez, de heruitgave van het debuut van Morgan Talty, de Amerikaanse schrijver van Indiaanse afkomst. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review en recensie

  • “Remarkable. An electric, captivating voice … Talty has assured himself a spot in the canon of great Native American literature.” (The New York Times)
  • “These stories took me in the same way Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son did when I first read it. The comparison here is meant in every way to praise Talty as a writer, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one who says so, partially because of his emotional precision, his stark, unflinching, droll, intoxicating style, and also because of a certain drug/addiction element at play here. But as I got deeper into the work, into the book, and came to understand these lives and this community, the further away it felt from my initial comparison with Johnson, and the more familiar it felt–our Native communities being bound by countless common threads, strengths and afflictions both–and only then did I understand the distinct brilliance of Talty’s voice as its own, and ours. I knew and felt for these people. Wanted to and knew I couldn’t help them, even as they did me. There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. I kept wanting to read and know more about these peoples’ lives, how they ended up where they ended up, how they would get out, how they wouldn’t. It is difficult to be so honest, and funny, and sad, at once, in any kind of work. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” (Tommy Orange)

Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez

Night of the Living Rez

  • Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Native American verhalen uit 2022
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: And Other Stories
  • Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Morgan Talty, de native American schrijver

A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Fire Exit, his first novel was published in 2024. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

Morgan Talty Fire Exit recensieMorgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Fire Exit
native American roman
Uitgever: And other Stories
Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024

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Victor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver en advocaat. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press het boek en debuut van Victor Suthammanont. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces review en recensie

  • “Cerebral, sexy, and provocative, Hollow Spaces is a can’t-put-down exploration of marriage, infidelity, and murder. Every page is steeped in sophisticated commentary on the far reaching effects of violence. A smart, compelling read that pays particular attention to the nuances of family and what both brings people together and tears them apart.” (Lo Patrick)
  • “Brennan and Hunter Lo, the children of a lawyer who was found innocent of murder but saw his life destroyed anyway, have spent their lives avoiding all sorts of truths, and each other. Hollow Spaces is the twisty, compelling, well-written, and human story of what happens when they join together to understand the father they lost, and the crime that ripped their lives apart.” (Jamie Harrison)

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces

Hollow Spaces

  • Auteur: Victor Suthammanont (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het debuut van Victor Suthammanont

The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation,  Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

Victor Suthammanont is a lawyer and author. Hollow Spaces is his debut novel. He lives in New York City.

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Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The The Corrections van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Franzen. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De correcties.

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review en recensie

  • “A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century.” (Elle)
  • “Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent.” (The Guardian)
  • “A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight.”  (Financial Times)
  • “A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny.” (Independent)
  • “Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture.” (Don DeLillo)

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

The Corrections

  • Auteur: Jonathan Franzen (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • National Book Award for Fiction 2001
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Franzen uit 2001

The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Jonathan Franzen is born 17 August 1957 in Western Springs, The Corrections Jonathan Franzen novel from 2001 first editionIllinois in the United States. He isthe author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, Freedom and Crossroads. and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. In 1996, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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John Fante – Wait Until Spring, Bandini

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1938. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster John Fante en deel  van het Bandini kwartet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini review en recensie

  • “Bandini is a magnificent creation, and his rediscovery is not before time.” (Time Literary Supplement)
  • “Wait Until Spring, Bandini is not merely a novel; it’s an enduring testament to life’s raw truths, a timeless chronicle of human vulnerability and resilience, proving once and for all that genuine literature comes not from refinement but from honesty, from courageously confronting the brutal, beautiful mess of being alive.” (Independent Review of Books)

John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Bandini Quartet

  • Auteur: John Fante (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1938
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cannongate Canons
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1938 van John Fante

A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression.
With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, this first novel from the Bandini quartet is a much-neglected masterpiece of modern American literature.

De Nederlandse vertaling heeft als titel Wacht op het voorjaar, Bandini en is alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado on 8 April 1909. He migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams, Fante’s literary fiction was full of Wait Until Spring, Bandini John Fante novel from 1938 first editiontorn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), his first novel, began the saga of Arturo Bandini, a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill – collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels, as well as stories, novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years, including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously, 1985). John Fante died on 8 May 1983 in Los Angeles, California, due to diabetes-related complications at the age of 74. He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles, four years after his death.

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Taylor Moore – Cold Trail

Taylor Moore Cold Trail review, recensie en informatie van de Garrett Kohl thriller 4, geschreven door de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver. Op 29 juli 2025 verschijnt bij William Morrow de thriller Cold Trail, deel 4 in de Garrett Kohl reeks. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver Taylor Moore. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Taylor Moore Cold Trail review en recensie

  • “Taylor Moore packs a punch in his latest Garrett Kohl thriller, Cold Trail, bringing his insider knowledge of the intelligence community and tradecraft to the genre. Taylor is a talent readers will be enjoying for years to come. Cold Trail is not to be missed!” (Jack Carr)
  • “A slam-bang, can’t-miss reading adventure that reminds everyone that everything—even the action—really is bigger in Texas. Moore’s gonna be a star. . . if you aren’t already reading him, start.” (The Real Book Spy)

Taylor Moore Cold Trail

Cold Trail

Garrett Kohl thriller 4

  • Auteur: Taylor Moore (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Morrow
  • Verschijnt: 29 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 18,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 27,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de vierde Garret Kohl thriller van Taylor Moore

In the fourth pulse-pounding thriller in the series, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must find out what’s truly tainted in the energy industry and uncover a deep-rooted plot in order to protect his new business, beloved ranch, and family. Perfect for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr.

On leave from the DEA, Garrett Kohl is ready to settle down and build a stable foundation for his family. But that’s easier said than done. In order to give his girlfriend, Lacey, and adopted son, Asadi, the life they deserve, and get out from under crippling debt, some risks have to be taken. And shocking alliances have to be formed.

First, Garrett partners with an old nemesis to form his new energy venture: Savage Exploration. Then his estranged, aloof sister, Grace, reemerges, keen on brokering a contract to connect Kohl Ranch to a pipeline on the Texas coast. But the company’s earlier success is endangered when an explosion at a nearby natural gas plant injures several workers. Garrett begins to suspect foul play and embarks on a winding investigation, teaming up with his old war buddy, Kai Stoddard, and reaching out to his CIA contacts, uncovering a sinister conspiracy overseas.

From an ex-CIA intelligence officer and consultant for the Department of Defense, this exhilarating thriller follows a man’s turbulent journey to fight for his family and hold on to the land that he calls home, culminating in an explosive final showdown that he never could have expected.

Taylor Moore is the author of Cold Trail, Ricochet, Firestorm, and Down Range, which was nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Novel, named a Strand Magazine Best Mystery of the year, and selected for the Texas Library Association’s Lariat Reading List. He is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up on a farm and ranch northwest of Houston and is a former CIA Intelligence Officer who worked in both analysis and operations and later consulted for the Department of Defense in Theater Security Cooperation, Force Protection, and Counternarcotics. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle with his wife and two children, where he is a full-time author, screenwriter, and speaker.

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Ben Markovitz – The Rest of Our Lives

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de in Texas geboren Britse schrijver. Op 27 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Faber & Faber de nieuwe roman van schrijver Benjamin Markovitz. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ben Markovitz The Rest of Our Lives review en recensie

  • “When Tom Layward’s wife cheated on him, he stayed for the children but promised to leave when his youngest turned eighteen. Twelve years later, Tom drops his daughter off at college, but instead of driving back to New York he heads west. What follows is a remarkably satisfying road trip full of strangers, friends, and self-discovery. It’s clear author Ben Markovits has spent time teaching. This novel speaks like a much-loved professor, one whose classes have a terribly long waitlist. It’s matter of fact, effortlessly warm, and it uses the smallest parts of human behaviour to uphold bigger themes, like mortality, sickness, and love. The Rest of Our Lives is a novel of sincerity and precision. We found it difficult to put it down.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “We all fear irrelevance as technology and society outpace us, and as the young outgrow us. Yet, reading Ben Markovits’s gentle, powerful and funny novel, we are reminded that family love can ground us and keep us together.” (Philip Womack, Times Literary Supplement)
  • “The Rest of Our Lives is another quiet triumph, an elegant, devastating book that lays bare the way time calcifies our failures, how we find ourselves trapped not by circumstance but by the slow erosion of the will to escape. Markovits has long been one of our most under-appreciated novelists; this is yet more proof that he deserves far greater recognition.” (Alex Preston, Guardian)

Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of Our Lives

  • Auteur: Ben Markovitz (Engeland, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Faber & Faber
  • Verschijnt: 27 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Ben Markovitz

When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, the synopsis reads, ‘he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife.

So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son – en route, maybe, to his father’s grave in California. Pitch perfect, quietly exhilarating and moving, The Rest of Our Lives is a novel about family, marriage and those moments which may come to define us.

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. His novels include Either Side of Winter, You Don’t Have to Live Like This, Christmas in Austin, and, most recently, The Sidekick. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and the New York Times, among others. In 2013 Granta selected him as one of their Best of Young British Novelists and in 2015 he won the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Henry Beston – The Outermost House

Henry Beston The Outermost House review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1928 over een jaar leven op het strand van Cape Cod. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt als Pushkin Press Classic de heruitgave van de memoir The Outermost House, AYear of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijver en naturalist Henry Beston. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Henry Beston The Outermost House review en recensie

  • “Beston reminds us of the transformative power of nature, its ability to heal, renew and sustain… Haunting, brave, breathtakingly beautifu.” (Isabella Tree)
  • “Written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty.” (New York Herald Tribune)

Henry Beston The Outermost House

The Outermost House

A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

  • Auteur: Henry Beston (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir uit 1928, natuurboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Henry Beston over Cape Cod

Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so entranced by the landscape’s rhythms and beauty that he could not bear to leave.

Settled in his isolated house facing the North Atlantic, Beston spent a year immersed in the raw, elemental life of the great beach around him. Observing the migrations of seabirds, savage winter storms and the constantly shifting interactions between sea and shore, he wrote of the passing seasons in ecstatic, riveting detail.

A highly influential classic of American nature writing, The Outermost House is a vital precursor to today’s masters of the genre. Impassioned and richly layered, it is a matchless evocation of the spirit of a place and the enduring appeal of the wild.

Henry Beston was born on 1 June 1888 in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He wrote many books in his lifetime, including a memoir of his years in the volunteer ambulance corps in the First World War, an account of life in the US Navy and a book of fairy tales. The Outermost House, widely considered his masterpiece, was published in 1928. His Cape Cod house was named a National Literary Landmark in 1964, and it was destroyed by a huge winter storm in 1978. He died at the age of 79 in Nobleboro, Maine.

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