Charles Boyle Bücher

Fünf Tage, an denen London den Atem anhält. Fünf Tage, an denen sich eine Frau entscheiden muss: zwischen ihrem Mann, ihrem Stiefsohn und ihrem Liebhaber. Fünf Tage, durchlebt mit hellwachen Sinnen, erfüllt von Glücksmomenten, zerstörenden Zweifeln, radikalen Bewährungsproben. Das Spiel des Lebens und das Spiel, das aus allen Fernsehgeräten flimmert, überlagern und beeinflussen sich. In den letzten Minuten wird klar: Ein Unentschieden darf es nicht geben. Ein berührender, humorvoller und dichter Roman über Liebe, Leidenschaft und Spielregeln, die genau dann nicht mehr gelten, wenn man sie am dringendsten bräuchte.

A memoir about books, mostly - and bonfires, cliches, dystopias, failure, happiness, jokes, justice, privilege, publishing, rejection, self-loathing, shoplifting and umbrellas - by an author who has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction under his own name and pen names.

Campaign is an award-winning course in English for the military. This student's book contains units that culminate in a task-based activity which recycles the language and key skills taught. It contains world English boxes that demonstrate differences in vocabulary in different English-speaking countries.

'They ran wild in packs. They spread disease. They fouled the pavements. They kept us awake and then infected our dreams. They bred faster than rabbits. They laughed at the police. Whole districts became no-go areas. Finally the government took action: they were rounded up and slaughtered and buried in pits and now there are no dogs.’Invisible Dogs is the travel diary of an English writer invited to a country in which there are no dogs – but he keeps seeing them, vanishing around corners. There are rumours of dogs gathering in the mountains, preparing for an assault on the city.‘Invisible Dogs is such a direct, lucid text that the reader might mistake it for a simple record of a visit to an authoritarian country. But Boyle’s wry and wiry prose, an invisible dog in itself, makes an eye contact you can’t break and produces thereafter a quietly deadly picture of the viewed and the viewer, the destination and the traveller.’ – M. John Harrison‘Funny, sinister, thought-moving like light, subtly then increasingly terrifying. Its intelligence reads like relief. Its determination not to language- or life-launder leaves it and the experience of reading it clean and cleansing re the shining and the very dark and the strangeness of us.’ – Ali Smith

The Disguise distils the writing from four of Charles Boyle's collections published by Carcanet and Faber.

A cross-genre exploration of interruptions in both life and literature, and of the relationship between the two, delivered in 99 brief episodes.