En las bulliciosas y estresantes oficinas editoriales del periódico Kvällspressen la periodista Annika Bengtzon intenta conseguir el artículo entre los artículos. Para ello se debate en una constante lucha interior entre las exigencias que le suponen su vida familiar y su ambición profesional. Valiente, compasiva, inteligente, con un lado oscuro y autodestructivo, se obstina por informar sobre la verdad, sin importarle cómo conseguirla. Durante los meses pre-Olímpicos una bomba estalla en uno de los estadios de la ciudad. Christina Furhage, una de las mujeres más importantes del país, vuela en pedazos. Ésta es la oportunidad de Annika para catapultarse a la fama y el reconocimiento de sus compañeros. Tendrá que averiguar quién intenta sabotear los Juegos y por qué. Tiene una pista como punto de partida: en la explosión se utilizó dinamita de la empleada en la construcción

As a struggling waitress and part-time college student, Rose Strickland’s life is stalled in the slow lane. But when her close friend, Axton, disappears, Rose suddenly finds herself serving up more than hot coffee and flapjacks. Now she’s hashing it out with sexy bad guys and scrambling to find clues in a race to save Axton before his time runs out. With her anime-loving bestie, her septuagenarian boss, and pair of IT wise men along for the ride, Rose discovers political corruption, illegal gambling, and shady corporations. She’s gone from zero to sixty and quickly learns when you’re speeding down the fast lane, it’s easy to crash and burn

Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollers's dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare

Bresekow, ein Dorf in Vorpommern. Als die alte Frau Hanske stirbt, kommt ihre Tochter Ingrid mit ihrer Familie aus Irland zur Beerdigung. Ingrid hatte Bresekow vor vielen Jahren fluchtartig verlassen. Der Besuch verändert vieles im Dorf, wirft gerade für die Familien Ploetz und Wachlowski alte und neue Fragen auf. Die Dorfbewohner beginnen zu sprechen, über ihr derzeitiges Leben und ihre Verstrickungen von damals. Bresekow war immer eine kleine Welt, eng, abgelegen und heute zudem vom Verfall bedroht. Judith Zander lässt drei Generationen zu Wort kommen. Sie erzählt mit ungeheurer Sprachkraft von einem verschwiegenen Ort im Nordosten Deutschlands, von Provinz und Alltag, von Freundschaft und Verrat, vom Leben selbst.Die Autorin wurde bei den 34. Tagen der deutschsprachigen Literatur in Klagenfurt für ihren Auszug aus 'Dinge, die wir heute sagten' mit dem 3sat-Preis 2010 geehrt. Sie erhielt für diesen Roman den Preis der Sinecure Landsdorf 2010 und war nominiert für den Klaus-Michael Kühne-Preis 2010. Zudem wurde der Roman auf die Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises 2010 aufgenommen

Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs. Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest — for both writer and reader. 'Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling — Sinclair on top form' Daily Telegraph 'Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness' Sunday Times 'Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that is at once hallucinatory and forensic' Independent on Sunday Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest — for both writer and reader. Praise for Iain Sinclair: 'A modern-day William Blake' Jacques Peretti, BBC Culture Show 'One of the finest writers alive' Alan Moore 'Eloquent chronicler of London's grunge and glory' Independent 'He writes with a fascinated, gleeful disgust, sees with neo-Blakean vision, listens with an ear tuned to the white noise of an asphalt soundtrack' The Times 'Sinclair is a genius. Sinclair is the poet of place' GQ 'Sinclair breathes wondrous life into monstrous, man-made landscapes' TLS 'Iain Sinclair is a reliably exhilarating writer' Telegraph 'He is incapable of writing a dull paragraph' Scotland on Sunday Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory

One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother visit a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors the daughter of what was her name? Miganne, who lived in front of Cabanillas s office Which Cabanillas? The one married to Artola s daughter? They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the Cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old wind-up toys, and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living all the figures are disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party. And how can the citizens save their town when deep down there is always such a dark thirst for life?"

First published in 1985, this legendary and still distinctive novel may attract new fans, although the postnuclear-war theme has become somewhat dated. Technology has vanished in a barbaric, 22nd-century California run by a Sidney Greenstreet lookalike messiah, Norton Jaybush, who boasts a fancifully colossal "night club of the damned" in Venice and his own Holy City in Irvine. His young hippie followers, aka "Jaybirds," drift in a hallucinatory Philip K. Dick-style dream, while "redeemers" strive to rescue them. The serviceable plot focuses largely on the efforts of the hero, Gregorio Rivas, a musician and former redeemer who lives in "Ellay," to bring back a runaway. The film Mad Max (1980) seems to have inspired many of the images in this rundown world, such as "an old but painstakingly polished Chevrolet body mounted on a flat wooden wagon drawn by two horses." Powers has a nice knack for puns, e.g., a "hemogoblin," a balloonlike monster who sucks blood from its victims, and "fifths," paper money issued by a "Distiller of the Treasury." The antireligious tone of the book, not uncommon in science fiction of the era, is a refreshing change from much of today's blatantly proselytizing SF (see feature, "Other Worlds, Suffused with Religion," Apr. 16). At times Powers's heavy prose style can be trying, but his engaging conceptions will keep most readers turning the pages

Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore’s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl’s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own. Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together again — with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell

Herbjørg Wassmo (g. 1942) yra viena iš skaitomiausių autorių Norvegijoje. 1986 m. rašytoja apdovanota Šiaurės šalių tarybos premija. Jos kūriniai išversti į daugelį kalbų. Garsiausia iš jų - "Dinos knyga" - romanas apie išdavystę ir kaltę, gaivališką ir nepasotinamai juslingą moters prigimtį. Baisus sukrėtimas, patirtas ankstyvojoje vaikystėje, persekioja Diną visą gyvenimą, paveikia jos sąmonę. Rodos, šaltakraujiškai ji žaidžia aplinkinių žmonių gyvenimais. Tuo tarpu pačios likimą valdo griežti ir negailestingi Senojo Testamento dėsniai.  H. Wassmo romanas – nepaprasto originalumo ir įtaigumo saga apie demonišką moterį, kurios nežabotos aistros ir noras viską valdyti neša pražūtį visiems ir jai pačiai. Veiksmas vyksta XIX a. Norvegijoje. "Dinos knyga" tęsinys - "Likimo sūnūs" ir "Karnos kraitis", kur pasakojama Dinos sūnaus Benjamino, savo akimis išvydusio baisų motinos kerštą, gyvenimo istorija. Versta iš: Herbjørg Wassmo  DINAS BOK Iš norvegų k. vertė Eglė Išganaitytė

A woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he has left behind; a mother struggles to understand her nine-year-old son’s obsession with dead birds and the apocalypse. In Danielle McLaughlin’s stories, the world is both beautiful and alien. Men and women negotiate their surroundings as a tourist might navigate a distant country: watchfully, with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. Here are characters living lives in translation, ever at the mercy of distortions and misunderstandings, striving to make sense both of the spaces they inhabit and of the people they share them with

Anyone tampering with the past had better try Real Hard to anticipate all possible consequences. Some, of course, are harder than others