Scarlett Thomas Bücher

Wenn Sie wüssten, dass auf einem Buch ein Fluch liegt, würden Sie es dann lesen?Als Ariel Manto in einem Antiquariat eine Ausgabe von The End of Mr. Y in die Hände fällt, traut sie ihren Augen nicht. Nach allem, was sie über seinen Autor, den seltsamen viktorianischen Wissenschaftler Thomas Lumas, weiß, ist ihr klar, dass dieses Buch eine absolute Rarität ist – manche sagen sogar, es sei mit einem Fluch belegt. Kaum ist Ariel im Besitz des Buches, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Sie gerät in ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen und begibt sich auf eine Zeitreise…„Originell und schlichtweg genial… Eine großartige, irrwitzig intelligente Geschichte!“Philip Pullman„Troposphere ist so klug, elegant und einfallsreich, dass einem der Kopf schwirrt.“New York Times Book Review„Rasant, frech und unverschämt intelligent!“Kirkus Reviews„Troposphere ist ein Meisterstück. Es ist eine brilliante, fesselnde Geschichte, die das Wesen des Lebens und die Struktur der Welt in Frage stellt.“Douglas Coupland

Lily Pascale, eine lebhafte neue Figur aus London, steht im Mittelpunkt, während sie das Chaos eines schockierenden Verbrechens auf dem Campus bewältigt: die Entdeckung der enthaupteten Leiche von Stephanie Duncan. Dieses fesselnde Rätsel verbindet Humor und Intrigen, während Lily sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit begibt und dabei ihren Witz und ihre Entschlossenheit unter Beweis stellt.

Der Schlüssel zur Vergangenheit liegt in den Zahlen. Alice Butler gehört zum kreativen Kern von PopCo, einem hypermodernen, erfolgreichen und auch etwas unheimlichen Spielwarenkonzern. Ohne große Lust nimmt sie an einem «Inspirations-Camp» in ländlicher Abgeschiedenheit teil; entwickelt werden soll das ultimative Produkt für Teenager. Das Wochenende nimmt eine dramatische Wendung, als Alice codierte Botschaften von einem Unbekannten erhält. Haben sie etwas mit der Vergangenheit ihrer Familie zu tun? Ihr Vater, ein Kryptologe, ist seit vielen Jahren spurlos verschollen...

Könnte diese Geschichte dein Leben retten?Das Biest von Dartmoor. Ein Poltergeist. Ein geheimnisvolles Flaschenschiff. Ein verbotener Kuss. Ein Strickmuster für die Form des Universums. Eine Theorie vom Ende der Zeit. Zen-Geschichten. Ein Roman, der sich weigert, geschrieben zu werden. Und eine Frau, die im Labyrinth ihres Lebens fürchtet, den Faden zu verlieren.Eine großartige, schwindelerregende Reise durch die Welt des Geschichtenerzählens, die Rätsel des Lebens und der Liebe.«Scarlett Thomas ist ein Genie!» Douglas Coupland«Ein Genuss – kraftvoll und eindringlich.»Philip Pullman

Some people think opening a book is a simple thing. It's not. Most people don't realise that you can get truly lost in a book. You can. Especially you. After the worldquake, magic is seeping into our world Effie Truelove is a new pupil at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange, with its twisted grey spires and an English teacher so frightening she gives the class nightmares. When her beloved grandfather is brutally attacked, Effie promises to look after his magical books. But when shady book-collector Leonard Levar gets his hands on them and Effie has to embark on the most dangerous adventure of her life . . . Effie must travel to the mysterious Otherworld, unlock the hidden meaning of an old book called Dragon's Green, and brave the terrifying Diberi, a secret organisation with plans that could destroy the entire universe. But Effie can't face the Diberi alone. Can her new school-friends Maximilian, Wolf, Lexy and Raven combine their gifts and discover their true powers in time?

In a magical library filled with Midwinter spells, Effie and her friends face the challenge of reuniting to avert the universe's destruction. As they navigate the mystery of disappearing cats, their adventure intertwines elements of fantasy and friendship, highlighting the importance of collaboration in overcoming dire threats.

When an identical twin apparently commits suicide, the incident is clearly tragic but straightforward. Straightforward to most, with the exception of novelist Emma Winter, whose friend Lily, a capable investigator, discovers a killer is on the loose.

'A modern take on The Wizard of Oz that will be thoroughly enjoyed by all fans of Douglas Coupland.' Daily Mail

Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas's fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege, and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl British boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders, and Instagram angst. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the world of the school gets ever darker and even weirder. Scarlett Thomas's first adult fiction since 2015 is a major return. Wildly frank, funny, and full of humanity, Oligarchy reminds us how insightful, vulnerable, brilliant, and misunderstood teenagers are, never more so than now.

A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want to. At forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. She'd quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She'd had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Of her three fathers (she'd acquired a stepfather at ten), one died of a heroin overdose and the other two were diagnosed with cancer. Her sister-in-law became pregnant at the same time that she realized that she really was never going to become a mother. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible.She was supposed to grow up, but she didn't know how. So instead, she decided to regress: to go back to the thing she'd loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis. Thomas knows she's not the only person to have wondered if you throw enough money and time and passion at something, whether you can make your dream come true. 41-Love is heartbreaking but frequently darkly funny as Scarlett finds she'll do anything to win--almost anything.

'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.' They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on a deserted island. There's food in the fridge and they have a bedroom each, but there's no telephone, no television, and no way to escape.

"Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love. A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human."--

From 'one of the UK's most interesting authors' (Kirkus Reviews), this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic tale follows a couple escaping their secretive pasts and present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island. After the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive at the Villa Rosa, a tiny hotel, just as a storm approaches. Feeling insecure amidst the glamorous guests—models and musicians—Evelyn grows wary of Isabella, the hotel owner, who seems fixated on Richard and disapproves of Evelyn's requests. Isabella is also captivated by the story of 'the sleepwalkers,' a couple who drowned during a previous stay. What initially appears eccentric soon spirals into a living nightmare. When the storm separates Evelyn and Richard, they confront dark truths about themselves. Their confessions regarding their relationship's origins and their past may hold the key to their survival. Exhilarating, suspenseful, and subversively funny, this story explores urgent themes of relationships, sexuality, and the hidden darkness of contemporary society, where our most terrible secrets lie in plain sight.

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on an idyllic Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and out at sea a storm is brewing.They check in to an exclusive hotel, the Villa Rosa, where the proprietor Isabella - a strangely intense woman of indeterminate accent - flirts outrageously with Richard while treating Evelyn with a rudeness bordering on contempt. Isabella tells them the story of 'the sleepwalkers': a couple who stayed at the hotel the year before and drowned in a tragic and unexplained accident. It starts to feel like the entire island is obsessed with 'the sleepwalkers', but what at first seems like a fun tale to tell before bed quickly evolves into a living nightmare.Caught in a web of deception and intrigue, where nothing and nobody are quite what they seem, Evelyn and Richard discover that their island paradise may in fact be hell on earth and that their only means of escape is to confront dark truths about themselves and those they love.Exhilarating, suspenseful, and subversively funny, in The Sleepwalkers Thomas takes elements on Daphne Du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith and blends them with her own unique sensibility to create an unforgettable thriller of rare intelligence that cements her reputation as the most exciting and original author of her generation.

Fee Goedhart weet hoe ze met magische boeken naar de bovenwereld kan reizen. Haar klasgenoot Max heeft echter meer interesse in de donkere onderwereld. Wanneer beiden onder duistere omstandigheden verdwijnen, raken hun vrienden in paniek. Is het toeval dat zij tegelijkertijd worden vermist? Dan bereikt hen het bericht dat Fee ernstig in gevaar is en dat haar tijd opraakt. Waar zijn Fee en Max?

Fee is dol op magie, en eindelijk is haar grootvader begonnen met haar magisch onderricht. Maar dan overlijdt hij plotseling. Fee erft zijn bibliotheek met 499 magische boeken, die haar vader meteen verpatst aan een Diberi, een boekverbrander. Fee moet alles op alles zetten om de boeken te redden. Met hulp van nieuw verworven vrienden en de troeven die haar grootvader in het geheim heeft nagelaten, reist Fee naar de bovenwereld. Maar om bij de Diberi te komen, moet ze eerst langs een gevaarlijke draak…

Když váš život ovládají síly mocné jako podzimní středomořská bouře… Když Evelyn a Richard koncem sezony přijíždějí na líbánky na zapadlý řecký ostrůvek, stále se vzpamatovávají z překvapivého průběhu vlastní svatby. K dusivé atmosféře nemalou měrou přispívá i podivné chování majitelky hotelu Isabelly, která má očijen pro Richarda, zato Evelyn odmítá splnit byť to nejobyčejnější přání. Navíc všichni neustále mluví o „náměsíčnících“, manželském páru, který na ostrově utonul při velké podzimní bouři téměř přesně před rokem. Co mělo být sluncem zalitou svatební cestou, to se pro Evelyn a Richarda plíživě mění v noční můru. A nyní se velká bouře opět blíží a během jediné noci vyplouvá na světlo řada temných tajemství. Osudy turistů a místních se nenávratně proplétají a čtenáři i sami protagonisté si musí stále znovu klást znepokojivou otázku: Co se vlastně stalo?

Publikace představuje první české přehledové dějiny dramatického žánru ve Spojených státech amerických od jeho úplných začátků v polovině 17. století do roku 1916. Nejvýznamnější směry a díla začleňuje do kontextu uměleckých, divadelních a společensko-politických změn, jež měly na konkrétní dobovou tvorbu přímý vliv. Kniha je strukturována do dvou oddílů. První představuje přehledově výkladovou část členěnou podle dějinných etap vývoje staršího amerického dramatu, druhý oddíl sestává z překladů ukázek reprezentativních děl tohoto období. Čtenář tak má k dispozici nejen přehledové dějiny vývoje poněkud opomíjeného žánru, ale rovněž antologii, která prostřednictvím ukázkových textů tento vývoj dokumentuje.