Ned Beauman

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette . . .For the first time, Britain''s most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist''s office in Camberwell.

El mercado de Shivaji Nagar, en el corazón de Bangalore, es un hervidero pulsante de vida y comercio, que se convierte en el escenario perfecto para que un asesinato no levante sospechas. Cuando aparece un joven estrangulado, nadie le presta atención, salvo el inspector Gowda, un hombre tan desilusionado con la vida como metódico y obstinado en su trabajo. Mientras la policía yace paralizada por una burocracia asfixiante, Gowda entrevé, tras la aparición de nuevas víctimas, un patrón que se repite, dadas las peculiaridades del arma utilizada y la indumentaria del sospechoso. El lado más oscuro y corrupto de la ciudad irrumpe y sólo gracias al coraje que le inspira la recuperación de un viejo amor, Gowda podrá detener al asesino e intentar recuperar la ilusión por la vida. En una ciudad de contrastes fascinantes entre mercados de especias y la urbe hipertecnológica, mansiones suntuosas y delicados saris, Anita Nair nos acerca a la India del siglo XXI en una trepidante historia en la que se atisba un halo de esperanza tras las intrigas y los secretos de la infancia.

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Combining love, lust, murder and lots of beetles in a thrilling novel, Ned Beauman has created a page-turning debut full of wild ideas.

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette...For the first time, Britain''s most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist''s office in Camberwell.

This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase. There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles. It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining. We hope you are too.

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beaumans riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.

Raf, un joven londinense que se gana la vida en una emisora pirata y paseando a una mascota, malvive entre éxtasis, fiestas nocturnas en lavanderías after hours y restaurantes baratos de comida asiática. Tambien ha probado el glow, la nueva droga birmana. La subita desaparicion de su amigo Theo, el dueño de la emisora, desencadena una accion desenfrenada, que va desde el sur de Londres hasta una oscura aldea de Birmania y que engancha desde las primeras paginas. Una trama densa por la que se circula sin embargo con ligereza. De lo absurdo, de lo marginal y miserable se levanta todo un edificio narrativo de una enorme riqueza de discurso, original como pocos por lo muy alejado de los topicos y estandares del romanticismo cinematografico de la segunda mitad del siglo xx, no menos noble que estos y desde luego mas autentico.

From the award-winning Ned Beauman, an unquestionably brilliant (TLS) novel that establishes him as one of the exciting and influential voices in modern British fiction.

Egon Loeser n’est pas un héros banal. C’est un obsédé sexuel mais il ne couche jamais ou presque. Il est obnubilé par une jeune femme, Adele Hitler (aucun rapport avec Adolf), plongée dans la débauch

HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER.When you havent had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone.If youre living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isnt.But thats no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him cant, just once in a while, get himself laid.From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesnt know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that cant remember what isotope means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.LETS HOPE THE PARTY WAS WORTH IT

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident. The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, its all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now were never getting them back. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsuckers last-known habitat. Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030sa nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian stateResaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper theyre drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing? Virtuosic and profound, witty and despairing, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best.

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beaumans riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.

South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed by The Guardian as playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude andabove alldeliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh. Twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days walking Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves in warehouses and launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace, Rafs efforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, hes falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but hell soon discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye. Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, Glow is Ned Beaumans most compelling, virtuosic, and compulsively readable novel yet.

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.

NED BEAUMAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINES BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the for the Guardian First Book Award, Ned Beauman was chosen by The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Writers in 2011.This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase. There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles. It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining. We hope you are too.

ADDICTIVELY GOODThe TimesOver-whelming IndependentSuperchargedEvening StandardDeliciously, startlingly, exuberantly freshGuardianWith GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette . . .For the first time, Britains most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentists office in Camberwell.

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, its all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now were never getting them back. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsuckers last-known habitat.

*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measureFinancial TimesBrutally satirical and grimly hilariousDaily MailThe venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have just gone extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody really cares, either. Except for two people.Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish is gone for good, and biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They dont trust each other an inch, but theyre left with no choice but to team up in search of the lumpsucker. And as they journey across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the lethal hinterlands of a totalitarian state - theyre drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.A laugh-out-loud novel about mass extinction (yes, really)Sunday TimesConfirms his reputation as one of the foremost satirists of his generationThe Times