Lesley Glaister

The last time Dodie sees her mother alive, Stella is unusually busy, tattily splendid in an old red velvet dress. Soon after this, Dodies brother Seth goes missing: the only trace of him is through postcards signed Yours in the Lord addresses from the Soul Life Centre, New York state.When Stella hangs herself, Dodie must leave her baby Jake at home and cross the Atlantic to bring Seth beck from the mysterious Soul Life Centre. But when she arrives, Seth is always one day away from seeing her. She becomes drawn - not always willingly - into the Brothers and Sisters communal living, meditation, fasting and chanting. Until baby Jake unexpectedly arrives at Soul Life and events take a shocking turn for Dodie.In a parallel narrative, Stellas sister Melanie tells the story of their teenage years in the 1970s and their shared affair with Bogart, a messianic hippy with shrewd ambition. These two compelling stories collide in a series of shocking revelations and an exhilarating conclusion. Heartfelt and frightening, Chosen is Lesley Glaister at the top of her game.

The rise of a religious cult intertwines with the secret history of a family in this tale from a master of suspense at the top of her gameThe last time Dodie sees her mother alive, Stella is unusually busy, tattily splendid in an old red velvet dress. Soon after, Dodie's brother Seth goes missing: the only trace of him is through postcards signed "Yours in the Lord" addressed from the Soul Life Centre, New York state. When Stella hangs herself, Dodie must leave her baby Jake at home and cross the Atlantic to bring Seth beck from the mysterious Soul Life Centre. But when she arrives, Seth is always one day away from seeing her. She becomes drawn, not always willingly, into the Brothers and Sisters' communal living, meditation, fasting, and chanting—until baby Jake unexpectedly arrives at Soul Life and events take a shocking turn for Dodie. In a parallel narrative, Stella's sister Melanie tells the story of their teenage years in the 1970s and their shared affair with Bogart, a messianic hippy with shrewd ambition. These two compelling stories collide in a series of shocking revelations and an exhilarating conclusion.

Nadia has been here before, at this seeping-away of hope. The other times curl behind her like the petals of a rose, all the memories, all her babies - false alarms, real pregnancies lasting only until her body rejected them. Meanwhile her boyfriend Simon is underground caving. Nadia knows he risks his life, a decadent death among the limestone, his bones withering in the rock. Her work is to create, to mould leather-hard clay into something beautiful. But she has not the heart for it today.Limestone and Clay shows a maturation and deepening of her considerable talents ... Lesley Glaister has produced a portrait of human relationships both disconcerting and haunting in its unflinching claritySunday Telegraph

The perfect Halloween novel!Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness withinIndependent on SundayBefore Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley GlaisterHarpers BazaarAll Nells life, Olive Owen has lived next door but one. And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school Olive had sparkled indecently, turning heads. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. Nell is sharp in all the places Olive is round. When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.A perfect, black little taleObserver

She always felt different - and now she knows why.An outstanding novel which confirms Glaisters command of the domestic and the bizarreIndependent on SundayEnormously enjoyableNick HornbyJennifer is about to turn thirteen and is suffering more than the usual teenage confusion. Shes lonely and her parents are unfashionably strange, so she lives in her imagination, dreaming of acceptance, to be popular and normal. Then Jennifer learns that her supposed parents are really her grandparents, and that her mother deserted her years ago. So when Bronwyn, the new girl at school, and the sinister Johnny crash into her life, adventures with them - no matter how dangerous - seem immediately more attractive. Glaisters rounded gift is to show life as it really isIndependent on Sunday

Jennifer is in prison for an undisclosed crime. Denied companionship, she escapes into her memory and imagination. Peggy Maybee, Jennifers ancestor, was transported for stealing a peacock. This is all that is known about Peggy but Jennifer conjures a life for her aboard a convict ship bound for Botany Bay.A partial eclipse of the moon used by the captain as inspiration for a sermon triggers a mutiny and, amidst the chaos of brawling thieves, cut-throats, whores and crew, Peggy makes a bid for freedom ...Brilliant, seductive and assuredNick Hornby

A remote, crumbling house; four sisters; and the secrets that imprison them...Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley GlaisterHarpers BazaarFrightening yet eerily beautiful ... Lesley Glaister is adept, original and matureHilary MantelIn a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters - Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther - identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead father, who governs his daughters lives from beyond the grave. And then there is George, another inhabitant, imprisoned in the cellar. Little by little, macabre events come to light: events that transform an idyllic country childhood into a world of eccentric isolation.Eerie and satisfying - a horror story told with tendernessSunday Times

Lamb survives by being alone. She cleans for a living and secretly inhabits the cellar of an elderly client. Then she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run. Doggo and Lamb, both strangers to the concept of truth, are drawn together. If only they could learn trust

Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceauescu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multiaward-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers.Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh. Mats, a Norwegian businessman, who longs only to be a good husband and father, becomes involved with Marta and both their lives are wrenched for good or ill in new directions. Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view, The Squeeze explores the transactions that take place between men and women. Sex, money and the desire for love, are at its heart.

Winner 2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeLonglisted: International Dublin Literary Award 2016Sunday Herald Book of the Year 2014Elderly, Egypt-mad twins Isis and Osiris find their neglected English lives disturbed to catastrophic effect by the arrival of American Anarchist, SpikeNew from Lesley Glaister, winner of the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Yorkshire Post Author of the Year prizesThis tale of imprisonment and neglect explores our passion for nostalgia, with hints of Dodie Smiths darker side. An excellent read that pulls at the heart as well as the head. Victoria Clark, The Lady Eerily atmospheric Little Egypt, made me shudder; certain passages were read through half-closed eyes, the way you watch grisly scenes in a film desperate to know what happens, but not wanting to disturbing images imprinted on your mind. Rosemary Goring, The HeraldLittle Egypt was once a well-to-do country house in the north of England. Now its derelict and trapped on a small island of land between a railway, a dual carriageway and a superstore, and although it looks deserted it isnt. Nonagenarian twins, Isis and Osiris, still live in the home they were born in, and from which in the 1920s their obsessive Egyptologist parents left them to search for the fabled tomb of Herihor a search from which they never returned. Isis and Osiris have stayed in the house, guarding a terrible secret, for all their long lives until chance meeting between Isis and young American anarchist Spike, sparks an unlikely friendship and proves a catalyst for change. I was gripped by the story from start to finish, finding it a perturbing, poignant and, in places, a darkly humorous read. Amazon.co.ukThis enormously accomplished novel took twenty years to come to fruition: it is well worth the wait buy your copy now.

Esta obra reúne tres ensayos que nos aproximan al pensamiento de Elias, maestro de sociólogos. Para él, en la sociología, como en la historia, cuando no se puede pensar en términos de representaciones figurativas, solo es posible elegir entre dos opciones