WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARAN FT BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss.Midwinter in the early years of this century. A te...

WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARDWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEOn a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence – street cricket, barbecues, painting windows… A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening....

'McGregor maakt op kalme wijze indruk, een erg goede schrijver. Zorgvuldig lezen, dit boek.****' NRCWanneer een onderzoeksexpeditie in Antarctica spectaculair misloopt, zijn de gevolgen ingrijpend - voor de deelnemers én voor hun families. Robert 'Doc' Wright zou opheldering moeten kunnen geven over het ongeluk, maar hij is na terugkomst niet langer in staat om te communiceren zoals hij dat gewend is. Terwijl zijn vrouw Anna worstelt met haar nieuwe rol als mantelz...

A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR‘It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story’ Hilary MantelThe highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching – for the men involved and for their families back home.Robert "Doc" W...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEDavid Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.

As broadcast on BBC radio 4: the fifteen ‘prequel’ stories to the Costa Award-WinningReservoir 13.‘He leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah HallMidwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descen...

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARDA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARAN FT BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss.Midwinter in the early years of this century. A te...

«Un libro meraviglioso. Uno scrittore eccezionale, unico.»Paula Hawkins«Bacino 13 è formidabile: per la struttura, l'intreccio e l'abilità con cui l'autore fa vivere i personaggi... È come guardare più di un decennio di vita da un treno in lento movimento.»Roddy Doyle«Un romanzo dalla forza visionaria»The New Yorker«Con una limpidezza che brilla di poesia, McGregor...

WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARDOn a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated.All of thei...

Meesterlijk en ontroerend: intiem portret van de onzichtbaren in de stad.Tussen kerst en nieuwjaar wordt in een vervallen woning het lichaam van een man gevonden. Zijn dood was niet opgemerkt en zijn lichaam wordt niet geclaimd. De dode man blijkt Robert te heten, zijn vriendin heeft hem lang geleden verlaten, met hun dochter, en in ruil voor drank en gezelschap stelde hij zijn huis open voor verslaafden en zwervers uit de buurt. Deze personages zijn onze gidsen in de wereld van de...

Premio Costa 2017Finalista del Man Booker 2017En un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra, durante unas vacaciones, una adolescente desaparece. El suceso altera el sosegado ritmo de vida de sus habitantes, que se unen en una intensa búsqueda mientras una multitud de periodistas cubre la noticia y la policía se moviliza para encontrarla. La investigación se prolonga durante meses, pero la vida continúa y el tiempo termina imponiéndose de manera inexo...

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers.A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do.Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just...