Patrick McGuinness

The poems in Jilted City inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From Stations where the train doesnt stop in Blue Guide, following a train journey through Belgium, to City of Lost Walks, English versions of a dissident Romanian poet whose poetry fails to register except in the form of an omission, McGuinness explores transition and translation, the afterlife of absences. Wit and paradox are at the heart of a collection that finds unforeseen connections between place and displacement.

Once the Paris of the East, Bucharest in 1989 is a world of danger, repression and corruption, but also of intensity and ravaged beauty. As Ceausescus demolition squads race to destroy the old city and replace it with a sinister Stalinist Legoland, its inhabitants live out communisms dying days not knowing how or where things will end. In The Last Hundred Days a young English student arrives in Bucharest to take up a job he never applied for and whose duties are never made clear. He finds dissidents, party apparatchiks, black-marketeers, diplomats, spies and ordinary Romanians, all watching each other as Europes most paranoid regime plays out its bloody endgame.

Academic work analyzing French literature of the fin de siècle, focusing on symbolism and decadence.

Un jeune professeur est nommé en Roumanie en remplacement dun confrère. Nous sommes trois mois avant la chute de Ceausecu, mais cela, il ne le sait pas.Guidé par Leo, un trafiquant au marché noir, il

EL PASADO ES UN LUGAR DONDE SIEMPRE ES AHORA.Un cáustico y certero noir literario basado en un caso real.«Un innegable logro literario a la par que una lectura adictiva que recuerda a las mejores nov

EL PASADO ES UN LUGAR DONDE SIEMPRE ES AHORA.Un cáustico y certero noir literario basado en un caso real.«Un innegable logro literario a la par que una lectura adictiva que recuerda a las mejores nov

Au sud de Londres, quelques jours avant Noël, est retrouvé le cadavre d’une jeune femme étranglée. Le narrateur, Ander, officier de police, enquête sur le crime avec son assistant le grassouillet Gar

Fils de diplomate qui a beaucoup voyagé à travers le monde, enseignant à Oxford, Patrick McGuinness a un lieu de mémoire secret. C’est la ville de Bouillon, en Belgique, où se trouve la maison de sa

Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodards sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law.This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other peoples countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.

In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselvesThis is McGuinnesss best collection by far, and stands out from the crowdSUNDAY TIMESIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.The first section, Squeeze the Day - a series of deeply moving poems about the authors mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. The Noises Things Make When They Leave elegises todays post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, After the Flood, links the books themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the worlds losses are redeemed:Its the anniversary of my mothers death,and its my mothers birthday -the day she short-circuited the tenses,made the current flow both ways.A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other Peoples Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.

**WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020** This is literary fiction as it should be: in stylish, surprising, lyrical sentences we are forced to confront the hidden power structures, public and private, that control our everyday livesThe TimesA young woman has been murdered, and a neighbour, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner - intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes - he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the smart-talking, quick-witted Gary, and his watchful colleague, Ander. Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher - Michael Wolphram - whom he hasnt seen in nearly 30 years.As the novel proceeds, we watch Wolphrams media lynching as ex-pupils and colleagues line up to lie about him. In parallel, we read Anders memories of his life as a young Dutch boy in 80s England. Another outsider, another loner in a school system rife with abuse and bullying, Ander has another case to solve: the cold case of his own childhood.Though it deals with historical abuse and violence in schools, and the corrupt power of the popular media, Throw Me to the Wolves is about childhood and memory. A perceptive and pertinent novel of our times, beautifully written and psychologically acute, it manages to be both very funny and - at the same time - shatteringly sad.*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2020**A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*