Swallowing Geography

A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge.One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart the shining shoppers’ paradise where...

In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again...

Deborah Levy on Briti kirjanik, kes alustas luuletaja ja näitekirjanikuna, mitu tema näidendit lavastati Royal Shakespeare Companys. Viimastel aastatel on ta üha enam esile tõusnud proosakirjanikuna ning kõik tema romaanid on äratanud suurt tähelepanu. Ta on avaldanud ka triloogia, mida ise nimetab elavaks autobiograafiaks, sest ta ei ole neid raamatuid kirjutanud mitte tagantjärele tark olles, vaid keset elutormi. Romaani „Mees, kes nägi kõike“ alguses on noor ajaloolane Saul Adler kutsutud...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016,SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016.Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home.Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and...

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. 'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is...