Ross Raisin Bücher

Ein berührender, aufrüttelnder Roman in der Tradition von Alan Sillitoe, Upton Sinclair und John Steinbeck Mick Little ist jahrelang Werftarbeiter in Glasgow, doch als man ihn wegrationalisiert, muss er andere Wege finden, um seine Familie zu ernähren. Als auch noch seine Frau Cathy nach langer Krankheit stirbt, zieht es ihm den Boden unter den Füßen weg. Von Trauer und Scham überwältigt und ohne seinen Söhnen Bescheid zu sagen, verlässt er das gemeinsame Haus und Glasgow, um in London neu anzufangen. Er findet einen Job in der Küche eines Flughafenhotels, wo er in Zwölf-Stunden-Schichten arbeitet und schließlich entlassen wird, als er zusammen mit anderen Angestellten einen Streik organisieren will. Mick landet auf der Straße und muss zusehen, dass er sich irgendwie durchschlagen kann. Erst als er Beans kennenlernt, einen anderen Obdachlosen, gewinnt er langsam wieder an Halt. Ross Raisin beschreibt eine Abwärtsspirale in Zeiten des fortschreitenden Sozialabbaus. Ein politisch brisanter, engagierter und brillant erzählter Roman mit einer Sogwirkung, der man sich nicht entziehen kann.

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Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her.

In one of the most celebrated debut novels of recent years, Ross Raisin tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine. But what begins as a friendship and leads to thoughts of escape across the moors turns to something much, much darker with every step.

Anita is a talented chef in a high-end London restaurant - who has risen doggedly up the ranks, finally, to sous chef. At home, however, her husband Robert is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly. Now Anita will have to make a decision about his, and her own, future- whether to be faithful to his last apparent plea for mercy, or to the person who he once used to be. A decision complicated by ambition, and by the guilt of her own past; complicated also by her intensifying friendship with another man, Peter, and the temptation of a new life. A Hunger takes us inside the real, untelevised world of a restaurant kitchen; into dementia's fracture of selfhood; and - in a first-person narration which does not use the word 'I' - immerses us uniquely inside the mind of Anita to experience every year of her life, from a young child to the carer of her ailing husband, for whom she must make the most difficult choice of all.