
By Nathalie Faure Lombardot
By Nathalie Faure Lombardot
By Karin Lüppen
By Will Self
'WHATEVER YOU DO grasp directly to the telephone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! think the smoothness of its bevelled display . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! position your thumb within the gentle melancholy of its belly-button - flip it repeatedly. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A 5 hundred-quid fear bead - and all I fear approximately is wasting the bloody factor. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . !'
For the 4 characters on the center of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our occasions the 5 hundred-quid fear bead of their pocket can be either a blessing and a curse. For aged Dr Zachary Busner it's a mysterious item - 'NO CALLER identification - How may still this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is with out an identification because of a few mental or actual trauma?' - but additionally it really is his existence line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose personal reference to know-how is, in flip, an essential one.
For Jonathan De'Ath , aka 'the Butcher', MI6 agent, the telephone may perhaps show his top stored mystery of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander - is Jonathan 's very long time lover.
And while expertise, love and violence ultimately converge within the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy's dalliance will confirm the future of countries.
Uniting our so much pressing modern matters: from the ever present cellular phone to a relatives in chaos; from the horror of recent conflict, to the tip of privateness, Phone is Will Self's most vital and compelling novel to date.
By Molly Keane
By Paul Tesseneer
By Bella Waxman
By Ruskin Bond
By Bear Grylls
Will Jaeger's adrenaline-fuelled event keeps during this action-packed novel.
Nuclear reactors stolen from a mystery wartime base.
An murderer the ultimate, clinging to the sheer external of a Dubai skyscraper.
A mountainside ski chase upon the icy slopes of the Himalayas.
A traumatised spouse, not sure the place to show, drawn into darkness.
Four threads, drawn jointly by way of one power-crazed killer.
Only one guy can cease him.
Will Jaeger. The Hunter.
By Wolfgang Vormbrock
By Hans-Christian Bues