Yannick Murphy

Un retrato conmovedot, enigmático y profundamente erótico de uno de los iconos más fascinantes del siglo XX.En octubre de 1917, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, Margaretha Zelle, más conocida como Mata Hari, vive encarcelada en una prision de Paris a la espera de ser juzgada. Se la acusa de espiar para Alemania, y en caso de que se la encuentre culpable, sera fusilada. Mientras espera, agobiada por un secreto sentimiento de culpa, Mata Hari, como Sherezade, cuenta retazos de su vida para convencer a los jueces de su inocencia. Excelente reconstruccion de la mitica historia de Mata Hari en la que se pone de manifesto la posible inocencia de la protagonista.

A deeply funny and achingly honest coming-of-age story surfacing from the pressures of Navy life and the weight of what comes after.Murphy, a fiction writer of vibrant imagination, wit, and nuance, returns after a long hiatus with a bravura first-person performance in the voice of a kind and curious submarine radioman. . . a soulful and charismatic protagonist in an uncanny, transfixing, and revelatory bildungsroman.Booklist, starred reviewQuite possibly the best novel about the peacetime Navy since Darryl Ponicsans The Last Detail.Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe rollicking, sometimes frightening, in-the-end surprisingly moving evolution of a submariner into a mensch.Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA nuclear submarine exists due to the laws of physics and for the laws of man. A submariner survives surrounded by high-yield steel, humor, and heartbreak.Things That Are Funny on a Submarine But Not Really is about David, nicknamed Dead Man, and his shipmates. Stationed in Guam, they sail the depths of the oceans, swapping jokes and stories while strengthening bonds continually tested by the rigors of submarine life. But when one shipmate is revealed as a Chinese spy, and another takes his own life, Dead Man is burdened by guilt.Searching for a change, Dead Man leaves the Navy to start fresh as a college student, but his past refuses to let go. The ghosts of former shipmatesboth dead and alivecontinue to haunt him, and unwilling to stay mired in his memories, Dead Man searches for meaning in a life that feels increasingly foreign.Written with Yannick Murphys distinctive and darkly humorous style, Things That Are Funny on a Submarine But Not Really is a headlong, entertaining dive into what it means to find ones way in a new world.

Octobre 1917. Dans une cellule de prison glaciale à Paris, Margaretha Zelle, alias Mata Hari, attend son jugement. Elle est accusée despionnage pour le compte des Allemands et risque la peine de mort

Addictive... A delicious mix of sexual reawakening and moral entanglementTelegraphA gifted storyteller with an unusual, hypnotic voice... truly original, it casts a spell that lingers in your mindDaily MailThis is a novel about a woman. About a mother. About a marriage. About a murder.In the brightly lit public pool the killer swims and watches. Amongst the mothers cheering on their swim team daughters is Annie. Watching her two girls race, shes thinking of other things. Her husbands emotional distance. Her lost brother. The man shes drawn to.Then she learns a terrible secret. Now her everyday cares and concerns seem meaningless. Annie knows she has to act. Above all, she must protect her children. Compulsively readable, it takes readers on a journey where none could guess the final outcome.

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night before; why her husband, Thomas, hasnt kissed her in ages; and why she cant get over the loss of her brother who shot himself a few years ago.But Annies world is about to change. From the bleachers, looking down at the swimmers, a dark haired man watches a girl. No one notices him. Annie is busy getting to know Paul, who flirts with Annie despite the fact that hes married to her friend Chris, and despite Annies greying hair and crows feet. Chris is busy trying to discover whether or not Paul is really having an affair, and the swimmers are trying to shave milliseconds off their race times by squeezing themselves into skin-tight bathing suits and visualizing themselves winning their races.When a girl on the team is murdered at a nearby highway rest stopthe same rest stop where Paul made a gruesome discovery years agothe parents suddenly find themselves adrift. Paul turns to Annie for comfort. Annie finds herself falling in love. Chris becomes obsessed with unmasking the killer.With a serial killer now too close for comfort, Annie and her fellow swim-parents must make choices about where their loyalties lie. As a series of startling events unfold, Annie discovers what it means to follow your intuition, even if love, as well as lives, could be lost.