MCGREGOR JON

ΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΜΙΛΑΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ
Ένας δρόμος σε μια πόλη, κάπου στη Βόρεια Αγγλία, συνηθισμένοι άνθρωποι που κάνουν καθημερινά πράγματα - τα παιδιά παίζουν κρίκετ, ο γείτονας βάφει τα παντζούρια, ένα ζευγάρι τσακώνεται, οι φοιτητές μαζεύουν τα πράγματά τους και ετοιμάζονται να μετακομίσουν, ανώνυμοι άνθρωποι διασταυρώνονται με ανώνυμους ανθρώπους όπως κάθε μέρα, συμπίπτουν στην καθημερινότητά τους αλλά δεν συνυπάρχουν. Ώσπου ένα φοβερό συμβάν κατακερματίζει τη γαλήνη του καλοκαιριάτικου απογεύματος και αλλάζει ριζικά τους ρυθμούς της ζωής. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφ...
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ΤΑΜΙΕΥΤΗΡΑΣ 13
''Aν δeν ξέρετε ακόμα ότι πρέπει να διαβάσετε τα βιβλία του ΜακΓκρέγκορ, δεν μπορώ να σας βοηθήσω σε τίποτα.'' E. WYLD, συγγραφέας ''Ο Ταμιευτήρας 13 είναι εντυπωσιακός· ο τρόπος που δομείται, ο τρόπος που ρέει, το ταλέντο με το οποίο ο ΜακΓκρέγκορ επιτρέπει στους χαρακτήρες του να αναπνέουν και να γερνούν. Είναι σαν να κοιτάζεις περισσότερο από μια δεκαετία ζωής μέσα από ένα τραίνο που προχωράει αργά.'' RODDY DOYLE, συγγραφέας ''Ένα από τα πιο όμορφα, συγκινητικά μυθιστορήματα που έχω διαβάσει εδώ και χρόνια. Η γραφή του είναι ζωντανή ...
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ΤΟΣΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΣΟΙ ΤΡΟΠΟΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΑΡΧΗ
"...και όλα τα αρχεία του κόσμου να είχε στη διάθεσή του, δεν θα τον βοηθούσαν σε τίποτα εάν δεν ήξερε ποιον ή τι θα αναζητούσε, ή έστω πού έπρεπε να ψάξει..." Ο Ντέηβιντ είναι έφορος σε μουσείο στο Κόβεντρυ. Από παιδί έχει τη συνήθεια να συλλέγει κάθε λογής αντικείμενα για να συγκρατεί το παρελθόν. Το μεγάλο όνειρο του Ντέηβιντ είναι να διευθύνει κάποτε το δικό του μουσείο. Προηγουμένως χρειάζεται όμως να βάλει σε τάξη τη δική του ιστορία. Ξάφνου όμως, από τη μια μέρα στην άλλη, όλα του τα στηρίγματα καταρρέουν. Μαθαίνει πως δεν είναι γιο...
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Γείρε πέσε σήκω
Όταν μια ερευνητική αποστολή στην Ανταρκτική πηγαίνει στραβά, οι συνέπειες είναι ανυπολόγιστες - τόσο για τους ανθρώπους που εμπλέκονται όσο και για τις οικογένειές τους στην πατρίδα. Ο Ρόμπερτ "Ντοκ" Ράιτ, ένας βετεράνος της επιτόπιας έρευνας στην Ανταρκτική, έχει τα στοιχεία για το τι συνέβη, αλλά δεν μπορεί πλέον να τα εκφράσει. Όσο η Άννα, η γυναίκα του, πλοηγείται στα δύσκολα τοπία της νέας της ζωής φροντίζοντάς τον, ο Ρόμπερτ αναγκάζεται να μάθει έναν ολόκληρο καινούργιο τρόπο για να υπάρχει στον κόσμο. Ο βραβευμένος συγγραφέας Τζον ...
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(P/B) EVEN THE DOGS
On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, ...
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(P/B) LEAN FALL STAND
The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. Doc Wright could be two steps or two miles from his team. In an ice storm, distance loses meaning. No one can see. No one answers their radio. All he can do is keep going, but something has gone wrong inside his head. Back home, he is the only one who can explain what happened to them in Antarctica. But after what changed on the ice, everything has lost its meaning. Now his wife, Anna, must become his carer. Now he must find...
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(P/B) LEAN FALL STAND
When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world...(From the publisher)...
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(P/B) RESERVOIR 13
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. As th...
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(P/B) RESERVOIR 13
Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search ...
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(P/B) SO MANY WAYS TO BEGIN
David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie. (From the publisher) LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE...
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(P/B) SO MANY WAYS TO BEGIN
David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THIS ISN'T THE SORT OF THING THAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU
A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, mu...
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(P/B) EVEN THE DOGS
On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, ...
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(P/B) IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS
On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows... A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered...
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