Tim Parks

Buch Sex ist im Dasgupta Institut verboten. Was also macht die unglaublich attraktive Beth Marriot hier? Warum verbringt eine junge Frau, deren unwiderstehliche Vitalitát und selbstbewusstes Ego einst auf Eroberung und Ruhm aus waren, jetzt einen Monat nach dem anderen als Helferin im...

INTRODUCTIONIn this collection, fifteen of today's finest writers introduce bookswhich hold enormous significance for them - and although some ofthe choices might at first seem surprising, all are eminently fitting. Thethemes are eternal - war, power, love, childhood, nostalgia, heroesand...

AUTHOR'S NOTE i often find it useful, or at least amusing, to think of a book in terms of a gesture, a mood, a posture. In which case the gesture of this book might be that of a busy but inexpert fellő w dashing about the narrow confines of his territory waving a net on the end of a long stick....

INTRODUCTION A word which should frighten more people, certainly more editors, than it does is: relaunch. Together with 'relabel', 'repackage' and 'rebrand', it smacks of marketing tradecraft, diligent attention to focus groups, flip-charts and that ritual called 'the presentation' which is...

A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.

Ich finde es oft nützlich, oder zumindest unterhaltsam, mir ein Buch als Geste, als Stimmung, als Pose vorzustellen. Und dann kann es sein, daß die Geste dieses Buches der eines geschäftigen, aber unerfahrenen Burschen gleicht, der innerhalb der engen Grenzen seines Territoriums mit einem Netz...