Новинки Джона Бойна

Эта история начинается с семьи. Отец, мать и два сына, у одного в крови жестокость и воинственность отца, у другого — артистизм и мягкость матери. Один сын уйдет. Второй останется. Постепенно к этим четверым начнут присоединяться все новые и новые персонажи, поступки которых будут направлять и определять судьбы двух братьев. Но это лишь начало… Истории двух…

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.

But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?

Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all. Can you ever truly wash away your past?

Дев’ятирічний Бруно разом із сім'єю переїжджає зі свого комфортабельного будинку в Берліні до нового дому у загадковому місці Геть-Звідси, де його батька призначають комендантом концтабору. Випадково він знайомиться з єврейським хлопчиком Шмулем, маленьким в’язнем. Між ними зароджується справжня дружба, яку, однак, розділяє колючий дріт.

До чого можуть призвести різні погляди на світ, дивна логіка дорослих, а також сила долі й божевілля випадку? Про це і навіть більше розповідає дивовижна книжка «Хлопчик у смугастій піжамі».

A Dickensian ghost story from the bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky

“A wonderfully creepy novel…magnificently eerie.” —The Observer

This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong.

From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin’s walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall’s long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch.

Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One who lives his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds…

At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake…

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past.

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past.

From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity, and oblivion

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass, and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds—and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.

The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realizing how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.

Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.

Sommige verhalen zijn universeel, sommige zijn uniek. Ze spelen zich af in onze geschiedenis, en tijd stroomt er als een rivier doorheen.

Dit verhaal begint met een familie: een vader, moeder en twee zoons. Eén zoon met de bloeddorst van zijn vader in zijn bloed, de ander met de creativiteit van zijn moeder. De een vertrekt, de ander blijft.

Hun verhalen zullen in de loop van tweeduizend jaar met elkaar vervloeien – ze zullen elkaar steeds opnieuw ontmoeten op verschillende tijdstippen en plaatsen. Ze reizen van Palestina aan het begin van het eerste millennium naar de verste uithoeken van de ruimte in het derde. De wereld om hen heen verandert, maar hun bestemming blijft hetzelfde. Hun lot staat vast.

Een reiziger is een episch verhaal over de mensheid. Het verhaal van ons allen, dat zich uitstrekt over twee millennia. Fantasierijk, uniek en hartverscheurend, dit is John Boyne op zijn best.