"The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller."—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Tracy Flick Can't Win and Mrs. Fletcher"A propulsive and gripping novel about the literary world, ambition, deception and...

**Before Inferno came The Dante Club…the captivating thriller from the writer whose fans include Dan Brown, Jed Rubenfeld, Kate Mosse and Tess GerritsenBoston, 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepare to introduce Dante’s vision of hell to America. Meanwhile a ruthless killer plots in secret to do the same.When a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge, only this small group are able to decipher the clues – they soon realise the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal in this gripping work of narrative nonfiction.On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and the...

“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy SchiffA Goodreads Most Anticipated BookIn his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the n...

Charles Dickens is dead.The final instalment of his last manuscript has vanished.The script was last seen addressed to the publisher whose fortunes depend on it. Since its sudden disappearance the only clue to its whereabouts is a trail of brutal murders.With his livelihood - indeed his life - in jeopardy, Dickens' publisher sets out to unravel the mystery. The trail leads him from bustling West End theatres, through grimy East End backstre...

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard is accepted by all. But none of this deters Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe's.Clark discovers that Poe's last days are riddled with vital unanswered questions. But just when Poe's death looks destined to remain a mystery, Quentin seeks out the one person...

A city held to ransom. A brave few determined to fight. A race against time.Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. The city's fate relies on four young students: Civil War veteran Marcus Mansfield, brash Bob Richards, met...

Matthew Pearl’s upcoming novel, The Technologists, is a stunning historical thriller based on the early days of America’s great institution of learning, MIT—and a depraved killer teaching Boston to fear its own shadow. In this original eBook short story, Pearl delves further into the turbulent world of nineteenth-century academia to re-create a shocking, real-life, and all-but-forgotten crime.William Barton Rogers will one day become MIT’s founder and pres...

ULUSLARARASI SATIŞ REKORLARI KIRAN, DANTE KULÜBÜ ADLI OLAĞANÜSTÜ KİTABININ ARDINDAN, MATTHEW PEARL TARİH İLE EDEBİ SIRLARI BİR ARAYA GETİREREK, MUHTEŞEM AYRINTILARLA SÜSLÜ, DÂHİCE BİR KURGUYA SAHİP ESRARENGİZ BİR MACERAYLA YENİDEN KARŞIMIZA ÇIKIYOR. Baltimore, 1849. Edgar Allan Poe'nun bedeni, üzerinde hiçbir şey yazmayan bir mezar taşının altına gömülmüş. Herkes Poe'yu, hayatının son dönemini bir ayyaş olarak geçiren, ikinci sınıf bir yazar olarak görüyor - yazarın şerefini kurtarmak için...

Con más de 2.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos y traducido en 40 países, El club Dante se ha convertido ya un clásico refrendado por el éxito entre el público y la crítica.En el convulso y puritano Boston de 1865 los miembros del club Dante -poetas y profesores de Harvard dirigidos por Henry Wadsworth- da los toques finales a la primera traducción norteamericana de La Divina Comedia a pesar de la oposición de la vieja guardia de la Universidad, que ...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentu...

Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares...Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, the artist and writer Dante Gabr...