Bright Young Things (40 page)
£8.99
ISBN 978 1 84767 335 0
eBook 978 1 84767 396 1
SCARLETT THOMAS
Could a story save your life?
If Kelsey Newman’s theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that?
Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time and a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.
‘This intriguing novel bends time and space . . .
A book that brims with a compassion and warmth’
Guardian
‘Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller’
Financial Times
‘Our Tragic Universe
is so addictive, you can’t help but fall deeper and deeper under Scarlett Thomas’s spell’ Douglas Coupland
£8.99
ISBN 978 1 84767 129 5
eBook 978 1 84767 906 2
SCARLETT THOMAS
‘A modern take on
The Wizard of Oz
that will be thoroughly enjoyed by all fans of Douglas Coupland’
Daily Mail
Luke is twenty-five and allergic to the sun. He is stuck in his bedroom, where the world comes to him through TV, the internet and Julie’s visits. Julie, meanwhile, is brilliant, kind and could be changing the world. Unfortunately she is too terrified of aeroplane crashes, road accidents and potentially life-threatening bacteria to leave her home town.
When someone contacts Luke and claims that he can cure him, Luke and Julie have to deal with their fears and face the world outside. With four friends, wellies and a homemade space suit, they set off in a VW Camper van along Britain’s B-roads. It is a journey that might just change their lives.
‘Surreal and inventive’
Independent on Sunday
‘Insightful and entertaining’
Big Issue
‘Scarlett Thomas captures perfectly the Estuarine suburbs where a lack of blonde highlights makes you a weirdo. . . Never mind what the neighbours might think –
Going Out
is worth staying in for’
The Times
£8.99
ISBN 978 0 85786 210 5
Export 978 0 85786 233 4
eBook 978 0 85786 211 2
SCARLETT THOMAS
Unlocking the secret power of stories: A manual for reading – and writing – better
Exploring the great plots from Plato to
The Matrix
and from
The Wizard of Oz
to Tolstoy, this book is a manual for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and to create their own. With startling insights into how construct stories, this is a book about how to read and write better.
Scarlett Thomas is the bestselling author of
The End of Mr. Y
and seven other novels. For ten years she has lectured in creative writing at Kent University.
Praise for Scarlett Thomas:
‘Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller’
Financial Times
‘You can’t help but fall deeper and deeper under Scarlett Thomas’s spell. She’s a genius’ Douglas Coupland
‘If you’ve never read a Thomas novel then let’s be clear: the ideas are big’
Scotland on Sunday
£14.99
ISBN 978 0 85786 378 2
eBook 978 0 85786 379 9
STEVEN HALL
‘The most original reading experience of the year’
Independent
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise. All he can recall are memories of Clio, a perfect love now gone. When he starts receiving letters signed ‘With regret and also hope, The First Eric Sanderson’, he embarks on a search to recover everything he has lost.
The Raw Shark Texts
is a heartbreaking love story, a brain-warping thriller and a one-way trip into the dangerous waters of the mind.
‘Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent – a cult waiting to happen’ Toby Litt
‘Clever, exciting, funny . . . and, finally, moving’
Sunday Times
‘A psychological thriller with shades of
Memento
and
The Matrix
and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns’
Guardian
£8.99
ISBN 978 1 84767 024 3
Export 978 1 84767 023 6
eBook 978 1 84767 389 3
£16.99
Audio CD 978 1 84767 156 1
£10.99
Audio digital download 978 0 85786 388 1
MICHEL FABER
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award
A brilliantly told and beautifully written novel that defies categorisation,
Under the Skin
introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers – so long as they’re well-muscled and alone. As the novel unfolds, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world. Beautifully written, funny, macabre and deeply affecting, Michel Faber’s debut novel will stay with you long after the final page.
‘It’ll get you one way or another. Of that there is no doubt’
Observer
‘Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception’
Independent on Sunday
‘Teases and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination’
Daily Telegraph
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ISBN 978 1 84767 892 8
eBook 978 1 84767 373 2
MATT HAIG
Families. Sometimes they’re a bloody nightmare . . .
Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can’t sleep, can’t eat a Thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can’t go outside unless they’re smothered in Factor 50.
With a visit from their lethally louche uncle Will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in Bishopthorpe is about to change. Drastically.
