Wild Houses

Förutom att de är bröder har Peter och Ivan Koubek inte mycket gemensamt. Peter, en idealistisk jurist i trettioårsåldern, är karismatisk och framgångsrik på ytan men kämpar i själva verket med att få kontroll över sitt liv. Hans tio år yngre bror Ivan är en allvarsam schackspelare, tyngd av stämpeln som före detta underbarn. Brödernas […]

Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and […]

‘Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them’ – Roddy Doyle Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction A ‘Book of the Year’ in The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, […]