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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, English novel

Neil Rollinson – The Dead Don’t Bleed

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don’t Bleed review and information of the content of the novel by the British author. Jonathan Cape will publish the Neil Rollinson debut novel, on January 8, 2026. 

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don’t Bleed review

  • “This dangerous delight is what happens when one of Britain’s best poets marries Lorca’s landscapes and 1970s gangland Newcastle in fiction – a thrilling, deep-song, high-proof novel that’s brilliantly imagined, gorgeously crafted and several cuts above the usual debut .” (Sarah Hall)
  • “Throw Sexy Beast and Get Carter in a blender, add some Lorcanian duende from blasted blood-drenched Spain and some of that soul-sadness from sodden, post-industrial far north of England, and you’ll get something like this gripping, compelling, elegiac and dismayed novel. Savage, sorrowful, superb.” (Niall Griffiths)
  • “Marrying the violence, duende and scouring light of Lorca’s Andalusia to the broken bottles and police sirens of 1970s Newcastle, this compelling, beautifully written story of male heartbreak slyly explores the way poetry helps you survive your past.” (Ruth Padel)

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don't Bleed

The Dead Don’t Bleed

  • Author: Neil Rollinson (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • To be released: 8 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the first novel by Neil Rollinson

Set against elemental landscapes – the dying coalfields of Northumberland and the barren wastelands of Andalusia – The Dead Don’t Bleed is an unflinching exploration of fraternal rivalry, family trauma and the lasting effects of a violent patriarchy.

Frank Bridge turned his back on his family’s gangland conflicts in Northumberland decades ago. His brother, Gordon, fled to Spain with the proceeds of a disastrously botched robbery and has not been heard from since. Frank’s life has taken a different path: he fell in love, studied Lorca and is now writing a book.

But when their gangster father, the head of their savage dynasty, dies, Frank feels he must track Gordon down and tell him that their father’s reign of terror is over. Can Frank’s appearance after twenty-five years prompt a truce, a reconciliation even, or will his arrival merely be the catalyst for more turmoil and brutality?

Taut, elegiac, violent and beautiful, Neil Rollinson’s debut novel is about how family can make or break us. Beneath the scorching, pitiless Andalusian sun, the two brothers are finally brought together for one last reckoning.

Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections: A Spillage of Mercury(1996), Spanish Fly(2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don’t Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers

Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de nieuwe roman van Thomas Pynchon de schrijver uit de Verenigde Staten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket review en recensie

  • “Pynchon’s gift has always been his ability to render America in its full strangeness … The book is full of exuberance. Pynchon’s sentences themselves are so alive, so pleasurable … The fact that Shadow Ticket is brilliant and prescient isn’t a surprise; that it exudes so much joy and sensuousness is.” (Megan Nolan, Daily Telegraph)
  • “Brilliant fun … Rollicking … Pynchon’s prose is still as balletically dazzling as the trick shot Lew teaches Hicks… It’s not just that no one else writes quite like Pynchon; it’s that no one even tries.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Pynchon’s livewire prose hops from subject to subject, joins the dots and makes patterns … The novel sets out with a song in its heart and mischievous spring in its step, but it edges into darkness.” (Guardian)
  • “A 1930s detective tale with a sucker punch ending . . . Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance – and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” (Los Angeles Times)

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket

Shadow Ticket

  • Auteur: Thomas Pynchon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, misdaadroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 11,99 / £ 14,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekenwereld

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Thomas Pynchon

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape – from the bestselling, award-winning American author Thomas Pynchon.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.

By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with.

Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

Thomas Pynchon is born on 8 May 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. Pynchon is often noted for his complex works of postmodern fiction, which are often characterized by dense Vineland Thomas Pynchon novel from 1990 first editionreferences to history, popular culture, literature, music, science, and mathematics, as well as by humor and explorations of paranoia. He is the author of the novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. Also he wrote Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, published in 1984. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

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Salman Rushdie – The Eleventh Hour

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour review and information of the content of the new with stories by the Indian born English-American author. Jonathan Cape will publish the new Ron Rindo novel, on November 4, 2025. 

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour reviews

  • “More than 40 years after Midnight’s Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie.” (Spectator)
  • “Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities.” (The Times)

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour

  • Author: Salman Rushdie (England, United States)
  • Book type: stories
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Released: 4 November 2025
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book with stories by Salman Rushdie

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.

Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight’s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.

These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through.

Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

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Dystopische roman, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, Klimaatroman

Ian McEwan – What We Can Know

Ian McEwan What We Can Know recensie, review en informatie nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijver. Op 18 september 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de nieuwe dystopische klimaatroman van Ian McEwan. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling, met als titel Wat we kunnen weten, verschijnt drie weken voor de Engelse uitgave.

Ian McEwan What We Can Know recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van What We Can Know, de nieuwe roman van de Britse schrijver Ian McEwan, besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Ian McEwan What We Can Know

What We Can Know

  • Auteur: Ian McEwan (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse klimaatroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 18 september 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 10,99 / £ 16,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Ian McEwan

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.

2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.

Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

De Nederlandse vertaling, met als titel Wat we kunnen weten, verschijnt drie weken voor de Engelse uitgave.

Ian McEwan was born 21 juni 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, Engeland. He is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. The Cement Garden, Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize Prize; Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act, Nutshell and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Susan Choi – Flashlight

Susan Choi Flashlight review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 10 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Susan Choi die gekozen is op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Susan Choi Flashlight review en recensie

  • “Flashlight is a sprawling novel that weaves stories of national upheavals with those of Louisa, her Korean Japanese father, Serk, and Anne, her American mother. Evolving from the uncertainties surrounding Serk’s disappearance, it is a riveting exploration of identity, hidden truths, race, and national belonging. In this ambitious book that deftly criss-crosses continents and decades, Susan Choi balances historical tensions and intimate dramas with remarkable elegance. We admired the shifts and layers of Flashlight’s narrative, which ultimately reveal a story that is intricate, surprising, and profound.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “Choi is one of contemporary literature’s great demolition artists, and her emotional foundations hold. She can build as well as she detonates. Choi gives her cast the room they need to live; to be more than vessels for political wrangling… Like the best of those early-00s novels, Flashlight is all kinds of big: capacious of intent and scope and language and swagger.” (Beejay Silcox, Guardian)
  • “Flashlight is severely allergic to summary, so watch what you read about it. Even categorizing this story as a mystery risks prematurely exposing the novel’s intricate structure to too much light. It’s catholic in its genre, shifting deftly from domestic drama to international thriller, from academic satire to bildungsroman. But what can be safely revealed is that Choi is writing about people who struggle and fail to find a stable sense of identity in a shifting world conspiring against them.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)

Susan Choi Flashlight

Flashlight

  • Auteur: Susan Choi (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 10 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schijfster Susan Choi

The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime.

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.

Susan Choi was born on 28 januari 1969 in South Bend, Indiana in the United States. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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Irvine Welsh – Men in Love

Irvine Welsh Men in Love review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuw roman van de Schotse schrijver. Op 24 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de roman van Irvine Welsh de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijver die vooral bekend is van zijn boek Trainspotting. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Irvine Welsh Men in Love review en recensie

  • “There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best, impertinent and loose and attuned to the poetic cadence of everyday speech. When his writing hits these heights, most often during flights of knowing, referential, rhetorical fancy, it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence.” (The Guardian)
  • “His paciest, funniest book in years.” (The Scotsman)

Irvine Welsh Men in Love

Men in Love

  • Auteur: Irvine Welsh (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 24 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 544 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs:  £ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Irvine Welsh

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.

Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.

Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.

But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest?

Irvine Welsh was born on 27 September 1958 in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fourteen further novels, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.

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Heather Clark – The Scrapbook

Heather Clark The Scrapbook review, recensie en informatie debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 19 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Heather Clark. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Heather Clark The Scrapbook review en recensie

  • “A swiftly-moving, molecularly perceptive, singular portrait of intoxicating young love.”  (Aube Rey Lescure)
  • “An elegant, unsettling novel about the burden of history and the illusions of love.” (Sana Krasikov)

Heather Clark The Scrapbook

The Scrapbook

  • Auteur: Heather Clark (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: coming of age-roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 19 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 18,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Heather Clark

Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she meets Christoph, a German student visiting campus. They only spend a week together – discussing art, ideas and history – but it is long enough for Anna to fall desperately in love. Anna begins to visit Christoph in Germany. As she tries to understand the young, elegant man who fascinates her, he reveals his country to her.

Germany is still reckoning with the Holocaust and its pretty new squares and grand facades belie its recent history and the war’s destruction. Christoph condemns his country’s actions but remains vague about the part his own grandparents played. Anna’s grandfather, meanwhile, was an American GI who took photos of the end of the war, photos that capture its horror, preserved in a scrapbook only Anna has seen.

Anna wants to believe in Christoph and the future he promises her but as their relationship becomes increasingly unsettling, she must face up to everything she has been unwilling to see, and everything Christoph has chosen to ignore.

Heather Clark is the author of four works of non-fiction, including Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (published by Jonathan Cape), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was the winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize and the Truman Capote Prize (awarded by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop). It was a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times and New York Times. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Time, Lit Hub, and TLS. She has recently received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Centre. The Scrapbook is her debut novel.

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Graphic Novel, Memoir, New York

Kay Sohini – This Beautiful, Ridiculous City

Kay Sohini This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review, recensie en informatie over de graphic memoir over New York. Op 30 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de graphic memoir over de stad New York van de Amerikaanse auteur Kay Sohini. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de graphic memoir is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kay Sohini This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review, recensie en informatie

  • “A ravishing new take on a storied city” (Katherine May)
  • “This is such a rich book, both visually and narratively.” (Isabel Greenberg)

Kay Sohini This Beautiful, Ridiculous City

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City

A Graphic Memoir

  • Auteur: Kay Sohini (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: graphic novel over New York
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 30 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de graphic novel over de stad New York

At once heartrending and enlivening, this phenomenal graphic memoir is not another ode to New York but a meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love.

On her first night in New York, Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of JFK airport making an inventory of all she’s left behind in India. Kay realises two things: she’s finally made it to the city that made her in celluloid and prose from across the Pacific – Kerouac, Friends, Plath – and that trauma she’s endured in her relationship has left gaping holes in her memory.

In New York, at last, Kay has room to begin the work of piecing herself back together through art and food. But as her personal story becomes a window onto a mystifying metropolis both inhospitable and inspiring to the many who call it home, Kay embarks on an electric exploration of how to forge the self and a life of one’s own today.

At once heartrending and enlivening, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is not another ode to New York but a phenomenal meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love with places – and indeed people – that do not always love us back but somehow still save us in weird, unexpected ways.

Kay Sohini is a writer and artist based in New York City. With the support of the Mellon Foundation and the ACLS, she drew her doctoral dissertation in English literature as a comic. Her work has been commissioned by the Washington Post, Nib, NYC Department of Education and others. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is her first book.

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Ierland, Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

Roddy Doyle – The Woman Behind the Door

Roddy Doyle The Woman Behind the Door recensie, review en informatie over de nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijver. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de nieuwe roman van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver Roddy Doyle. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Of en wanneer er een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verschijnt is nog niet bekend.

Roddy Doyle The Woman Behind the Door recensie, review en informatie

  • “Mr Doyle has made his own the gritty world of modern Dublin.” (New York Times)
  • “Roddy Doyle has never lacked ambition, writing complex novels that appear straightforward: heavy on the dialogue, simple in the language, deep in the lives of ordinary working people.” (The Times)
  • “Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity; the ordinary, discardable kind that keeps the world turning. Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me, followed by love.” (Anne Enright)

Roddy Doyle The Woman Behind the Door

The Woman Behind the Door

  • Auteur: Roddy Doyle (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Capa
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Ierse schrijver Roddy Doyle

At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.

That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, “a success” – Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, jokes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin on 8 May 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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Schotse roman, Schotse schrijver

Irvine Welsh – Resolution

Irvine Welsh Resolution recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Ray Lennox thriller. Op 11 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Jonathan Cape de nieuwe thriller van de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijver Irvine Welsh. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de thriller, de schrijver en de uitgave. Of en wanneer er een Nederlandse vertaling verschijnt van de thriller is nog onbekend.

Irvine Welsh Resolution review en recensie

  • “The best thing that has happened to British writing for decades.” (The Sunday Times)
  • “There’s only one Welsh and you should be reading him.” (The Observer)
  • “Sharp, fearless, passionate and brilliant.” (The Independent)

Irvine Welsh Resolution

Resolution

Ray Lennox thriller

  • Auteur: Irvine Welsh (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 11 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £20.00 / £10.99 / £14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe Ray Lennox thriller van Irvine Welsh

Ray Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.

Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.

Lennox has no choice – he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking: What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

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