AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FORI’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story.Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything.Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringi...

La giamaicana Jaqueline, detta Jaq, è il braccio destro del capo della gang che gestisce lo spaccio a Hackney, Londra. Ha lavorato in strada duramente da quando aveva quattordici anni, portando i soldi a casa per mantenere a galla la sua famiglia. Ora, si è ritagliata una posizione ai vertici della gang di Summerhouse e condivide una casa bellissima con la sua ragazza Becks. In bilico fra la lealtà verso il proprio clan e l’amore per la compagna, fra l’ambizione criminale e una ritrovata s...

La Rivoluzione è alle porte: San Pietroburgo è una città vitale e travolgente, centro nevralgico di una nazione in bilico sull’orlo di un cambiamento epocale. Qui la cavalleria prova a ricacciare indietro lo spettro del comunismo; l’antisemitismo mostra il suo volto più scellerato; lo zar è l’ago di una bilancia impazzita e un grande torneo di scacchi sta per iniziare. In un giorno di marzo, Gul’ko, rispettabile direttore di giornale, viene assassinato. Cinque giorni dopo il dottor Otto Sp...

The Catastrophist is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the charismatic Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba -- and his even more dangerous rivals.One man sees the cracks appearing around him and struggles to hold on to his lover, his sanity, and ultimately, his life. Gillespie,...

Un thriller ambientado en St. Petersburgo, donde se celebra un campeonato internacional de ajedrez y donde se están cometiendo una serie de misteriosos asesinatos.Zugzwang: [del alemán Zug («movimiento») y Zwang («exigencia, obligación»)]. En ajedrez se emplea para describir una posición en que uno de los jugadores queda reducido a un estado de total impotencia: está obligado a mover, pero cualquier movimiento solo empeora su situacióSan Pe...

St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp...

A penetrating and ambitious historical novel, Havoc, in Its Third Year is an ingenious, often deeply unnerving narrative of seventeenth-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fears of today.The time is the early seventeenth century, as the quarrel between Royalists and Parliamentarians turns toward civil war, and that between Catholics and Protestants leads toward bloody religious tyranny; the place is a town in northern England, set in ...

Das Jahr 1914. Die europäischen Großmächte steuern auf den Ersten Weltkrieg zu und der Stadt Sankt Petersburg steht ein bedeutendes Schachturnier bevor: Awrom Rozental fordert den amtierenden Schachweltmeister Emanuel Lasker heraus. Rozental ist genial, aber labil und daher Patient des Psychoanalytikers Dr. Otto Spethmann. Der wiederum hat nicht nur mit seinen Patienten zu kämpfen, sondern auch mit dem Verlust seiner Frau und mit seiner rebellischen Tochter. Zu allem Überfluss wird er des ...

Based on the hit Netflix series, this novel delves into the lives of Top Boy's beloved characters. Written by creator and co-producer Ronan Bennett, it promises to be an exciting new chapter of this bona fide TV sensation.I’m gonna tell you the whole story. I’m going to tell you everything.Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an oppor...

AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FORI’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story.Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything.Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringi...

Zugzwang: A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness–he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse.The year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is spellbound by the international chess championship, even as the city seethes with revolutionary plots. One blustery April day, a respected newspaper editor is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later, Dr. Otto Spethmann, the celebrated psychoana...