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An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.
Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.
Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation.
Rich and muscular, sweeping and incantatory, Train Dreams is an epic in miniature: an elegy to the ravaged beauty of a lost landscape, and a haunting indictment of the cost of our modern way of life.
'A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece' Observer
'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje 'I don't think there is a sentence in the book that isn't perfectly made' Ann Patchett, New York Times
The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now!24 hours to stop the crime of the centuryThe race against time is about to begin…THE TOWER OF LONDON…Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they transport the Crown Jewels across London.SCOTLAND YARD…For four years, Chief Superindendent William Warwick – together with his second-in-command Inspector Ross Hogan – has been in charge of the operation. And for four years it’s run like clockwork.THE HEIST…But this year, everything is about to change. Because master criminal Miles Faulkner has set his heart on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history – and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favour.Unless Warwick and Hogan can stop him before it’s too late…An unputdownable new thriller from the master storyteller‘Probably the greatest storyteller of our age’Mail on Sunday‘If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win’Daily Telegraph‘Peerless master of the page turner’Daily Mail Lees meer
24 hours to stop the crime of the centuryThe race against time is about to begin…THE TOWER OF LONDON…Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they transport the Crown Jewels across London.SCOTLAND YARD…For four years, Chief Superindendent William Warwick – together with his second-in-command Inspector Ross Hogan – has been in charge of the operation. And for four years it’s run like clockwork.THE HEIST…But this year, everything is about to change. Because master criminal Miles Faulkner has set his heart on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history – and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favour.Unless Warwick and Hogan can stop him before it’s too late…An unputdownable new thriller from the master storyteller'Archer always delivers, and this heist thriller hits the spot again' The Sun'Archer can still tell a gripping yarn' The Sunday Times ‘Probably the greatest storyteller of our age’Mail on Sunday‘If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win’Daily Telegraph‘Peerless master of the page turner’Daily Mail Lees meer
The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has travelled to Providence, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor, and the father of his college friend, Max. But after the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to each other, that store or obliterate the memories that make us who we are.
