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Emma Cline – Switzy

Emma Cline Switzy review and information on the novel of the American writer. Jonathan Cape will publish the new novel by Emma Cline, the American author, on September 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The novel has been included on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.

Emma Cline Switzy reviews and information

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  • “Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary.” (Daisy Johnson)
  • “Sublime… completely gripping… a wonder.” (Mark Haddon)

Emma Cline Switzy

Switzy

  • Author: Emma Cline (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: September 10, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2026
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Blurb of the Emma Cline novel

A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage.

A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting.

A mystery, among many mysteries. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable.

This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades.

His final destination is Zurich.

David glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church. A summer at a school friend’s house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life.

As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he’s relied on, vanish.

The novel is selected on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

Emma Cline was born in 1989 in Sonoma County, California. She is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline’s stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.

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Jacqueline Crooks – Sky City

Jacqueline Crooks Sky City review and information of the content of the London novel by the English author. Jonathan Cap will publish the second Jacqueline Crooks novel on August 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Jacqueline Crooks Sky City reviews and information

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  • “Hypnotically beautiful, almost weightless, Sky City is the literary equivalent of an out-of-body experience. In the best ways it pole-axed me.” (Louise Kennedy)
  • “Visceral, shocking, moving – Jacqueline Crooks proves yet again that she is an absolutely fantastic writer.” (Bernardine Evaristo)

Jacqueline Crooks Sky City

Sky City

  • Author: Jacqueline Crooks (England)
  • Book type: London novel
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: August 6, 2026
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the second Jacqueline Crooks novel

A spellbinding portrait of 90s London and three lives brought together by chance, from the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush.

After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee finally has a room of her own high up in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But the past is not so easily forgotten and her childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?

Her best friend from the hostel is Ella-G, who has left London for the glamorous world of the New York music scene. Both Jaycee and Ella-G are daughters in search of fathers. When Jaycee finds a rare record that seems to lead to Ella-G’s father, the two women go searching for answers in Atlantic City. What Jaycee encounters there brings her to the edges of her identity. Back in London, can Jaycee, Sol and Ella-G find justice and healing, even as their worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?

Jacqueline Crooks was born in Jamaica and grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London’s migrant community carving out a space through music, culture and politics. Fire Rush, her first novel, was shortlisted for multiple prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Jhalak Prize. It won the PEN American Open Book Award and the Paul Torday Memorial Prize. It was also chosen as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, a selection of which was published in the collection The Ice Migration, she has been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and BBC National Short Story Award.

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Irvine Welsh – Can Noting Save Us?

Irvine Welsh Can Noting Save Us? review and information of the content of the novel by the Scottish author. Jonathan Cape will publish the Irvine Welsh novel on August 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Irvine Welsh Can Noting Save Us? reviews and information

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  • “A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event… No living author is as entertaining to read.” (GQ)
  • “Can Nothing Save Us? is a big American novel and applies the same sharp-eyed realism that Trainspotting brought to working-class Edinburgh to Trump’s US. Set in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, it’s a multigenerational thriller.” (Guardian)

Irvine Welsh Can Noting Save Us

Can Nothing Save Us?

  • Author: Irvine Welsh (Scotland)
  • Book type: novel, thriller
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: August 13, 2026
  • Length: 496 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 20.00 / £ 10.99 / £ 16.00
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Blurb of the Irvine Welsh novel

Molly and George Warburton are used to living life their own way. She was an actress; he was her lawyer. Now, in the ferocious heat of Sin City, the couple are facing up to their failures and final years.

They announce that their grandson Luke – college dropout, aspiring writer, electronic dance music aficionado – will inherit their millions. It is sudden news that leaves their daughter Gina hell-bent on revenge.

Yet Luke’s good fortune, and his freedom, will not last. When a strange newcomer to the neighbourhood insinuates himself into the Warburtons’ world, it is the beginning of a chain of chilling events that could split the family permanently and put all their lives at risk.

The question is, do they have what it takes to survive?

Irvine Welsh was born on 27 September 1958 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fifteen further novels, including the Sunday Times bestseller Men in Love and the Crime series, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.

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Kae Tempest – Having Spent Life Seeking

Kae Tempest Having Spent Life Seeking review and information new and second novel of the English writer en spoken word poet. Jonathan Cape will publish the second Kae Tempest novel on April 30, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Kae Tempest Having Spent Life Seeking reviews and information

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  • “If books can still change the world, this one most likely will.” (Colum McCann)
  • “A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel.” (Irvine Welsh)
  • “A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness.” (Dawn French)
  • “A master-craftsman of deep feeling and linguistic intimacy.” (Max Porter)

Kae Tempest Having Spent Life Seeking

Having Spent Life Seeking

  • Author: Kae Tempest (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: April 30, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the new Kae Tempest novel

Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.

The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne’s block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there.

Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different.\

A decade since Kae Tempest’s last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. The things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.

Kae Tempest was born in 1984 in Westminster, London. He has been putting words together since he was a teenager. He has published plays, poetry collections, non-fiction, a Sunday Times-bestselling novel and has released six studio albums. In 2013 Tempest won the Ted Hughes Award, making him the youngest ever poet to receive it. He was named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once-in-a-decade honour, and in the same year he received the first of two Mercury Prize nominations. He is the only person to have achieved both accolades. In 2021 he was awarded the Silver Lion in Venice for his work as a playwright and in 2023 he won an Ivor Novello for his songwriting. His books have been translated into multiple languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. He hopes he will continue putting words together for the rest of his life.

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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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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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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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