“Simply Proust pulls off with ease the arduous task of making Marcel Proust’s masterwork accessible, without sacrificing none of the complexity that makes it one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. To do this, Jack Jordan vividly paints vast the cultural, scientific, and philosophical background that fed In Search of Lost Time. Armed with this knowledge, both new and repeat readers are bound to gain fresh insights into the brilliance of Proust’s novel.”

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Paris during a time of great social and political upheaval, a ferment that is dealt with extensively in his monumental work In Search of Lost Time. He was a sickly child and spent the earlier part of his short life pursuing a variety of sometimes frivolous activities, which led to his not being taken seriously as a writer. It was not until 1909, when he was 38 years old, that he began work on the groundbreaking novel for which...

'If you're reading this, I'm dead.' Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is on the brink . But one dark evening she collides with a man running through the streets, who quickly vanishes. The only sign he ever existed – a journal dropped at Rose's feet. Catapulted into a dark world of fear and obsession, she begins to dedicate her sleepless nights to discovering what happened to Finn Matthews, the mysterious author of the journal. Why was he convinced someone wanted to ...

She can't see the killer But the killer can see her ... Naomi Hannah has been blind since birth. Struggling with living in a small, claustrophobic town, Naomi contemplates ending her life. But then she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. She senses someone else there at the scene – watching her. Naomi may not be able to see the killer's face, but she is still the only person who can identify him. As the police begin hunting the person responsible and m...

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*CHECK OUT JACK JORDAN’S CONVICTION, SOON TO BE A HULU TELEVISION SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSS*When a woman plagued by insomnia discovers a missing person’s journal, it may cost her her life in this heart-stopping thriller from the international bestselling master of the moral dilemmaRejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is unravelling day by day.Her life is a blur of exhaustion, until one evening a ma...

*CHECK OUT JACK JORDAN’S CONVICTION, SOON TO BE A HULU TELEVISION SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSS*A surgeon faces an impossible choice: save a patient, or lose her son in this pulse-pounding international bestselling thriller from the master of the moral dilemmaThe man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it’s my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill him.You might think that I’m a monster. But there rea...