Dublin, 1982. De socialite Malcom Macarthur is een graag geziene gast in aristocratische en intellectuele kringen en leidt als erfgenaam van een welvarende familie een zorgeloos bestaan in het teken van zijn passies: kunst en filosofie. Tot zijn erfenis plots opdroogt. Hij besluit een bank te beroven en vermoordt op brute wijze twee onschuldige mensen. Een kleine dertig jaar later heeft Macarthur net zijn straf uitgezeten als journalist Mark O'Connell hem op de straten van Dublin benadert ...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning author comes the gripping tale of one of the most scandalous murderers in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion.“A masterpiece”—The Observer • “Disturbing [and] compelling”—Colm Toíbín • “Superb and unforgettable"—Sally Rooney • “Brilliant”—New York Times Book Review • “A masterly work”—J...

From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, for readers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, or Emmanuel Carr�re's The Adversary.In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the circumstances of his eventual arrest in the ...

L'Apocalisse non è una fantasia distopica, non è una remota possibilità. L'Apocalisse è intorno a noi: è negli aggiornamenti quotidiani sulla pandemia, è nei video YouTube sullo scioglimento dei ghiacciai, è nelle conversazioni quotidiane sul futuro. È sui giornali, sul web e sui social. Ma cosa stafacendo, concretamente, l'umanità per evitare la fine? Mark O'Connell ha intrapreso un viaggio alla ricerca di risposte. Ha visitato i bunker di lusso costruiti in Sud Dakota. Ha partecipato ai ...

'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph**NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy...

« Dans la galerie des criminels qui ont fasciné des écrivains, l’élégant Malcolm Macarthur est l’un des plus énigmatiques. Et dans le panthéon des écrivains fascinés par des criminels, Mark O’Connell se révèle un des plus brillants. »Emmanuel CarrèreEn 1982, dans une Irlande secouée par les attentats, le chômage et les grèves de la faim, Malcolm Macarthur se retrouve, à l’âge de 37 ans, dans une impasse financière. Ce dandy intellectuel qui ne se sort jamais sans son noeud d...

WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time'Jeanette Winterson

Este libro pinta un vívido retrato de un movimiento internacional impulsado por ideas y prácticas extrañas y frecuentemente inquietantes, pero cuya obsesión por trascender las limitaciones humanas puede verse como una especie de microcosmos cultural, una intensificación radical de nuestra fe más amplia en el poder de la tecnología como motor del progreso humano.Es un estudio de carácter de la excentricidad humana y una meditación sobre el deseo inmemorial de trascender los hechos b...

'Brilliantly researched, lovingly written, a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at some of the magnificent, unsung queer artists who worked on the iconic franchise.' - Tom Rob SmithAn original, warm-witted and illuminating chronicle about the queer talents that have shaped the James Bond phenomenon in all its forms.Blending historical insight with new observations and interviews, Bond commentator and author Mark O'Connell presents a ...

Dublino, 1982. C'è un bambino che fissa la finestra del palazzo davanti a quello dei suoi nonni: osserva un uomo che viene portato via in manette dalla Garda, senza dire nulla. Quell'uomo si chiama Malcolm Macarthur, un raffinato frequentatore della società intellettuale cittadina, amante dei papillon in seta, delle giacche in lino e delle buone letture. Macarthur è però soprattutto il responsabile di un duplice omicidio, la cui violenza e insensatezza hanno riempito le pagine dei giornali...

Malcolm Macarthur és l'assassí més inquietant de la història d'Irlanda. I potser també el més fascinant; el que més tinta ha fet córrer i el més indesxifrable. Han passat quaranta anys dels seus homicidis, i en fa deu que Macarthur va sortir de la presó; en tot aquest temps, el mite d'intel·lectual salvatge que envolta l'assassí no ha parat de créixer, però fins avui ningú havia aconseguit accedir-hi, fer-lo parlar i treure a la llum els clarobscurs de la seva «versió». Mark O'Connell acon...

Meet the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with aliens, inspired a classic sci-fi film, and made a nation want to believe in UFOs.In June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold looked out his cockpit window and saw a group of nine silvery crescents weaving between the peaks of the Cascade Mountains at an estimated 1,200 miles an hour. The media, the military, and the scientific community—led by J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer hired by the Air Force...