Adam Thirlwell

• Oct-2023
• / Literary
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Short-listed for the Goldsmiths PrizeFinalist for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionA wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no oth...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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Lurid & Cute is a kind of machine for the reader's corruption. It opens with all the things we've come to expect of Adam Thirlwell--"the playfulness of language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material," as Jef...

• Jun-2012
• / Literary
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Unfolding, turning and spinning, Kapow! is a new book by best-selling British writer Adam Thirlwell.Kapow! takes place in the thick of the Arab Spring, guided by the highspeed monologue of an unnamed narrator  -- over-doped, over-caffeinated, over-...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905. Considered Bely's masterpiece, the story follows Nikolai Ableukhov's journey as he is caught up in the...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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Haffner is charming, morally suspect, obsessed by the libertine emperors, vain. "The Escape "tells the story of Haffner and his lifetime of metamorphoses and disappearances. But how can you ever escape your past, your family, your history? That is th...

• Jul-2004
• / Suspense
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Politics is about: a) a threesome; b) politicsMoshe loves Nana. But love can be difficult -- especially if you want to be kind. And Moshe and Nana want to be kind to someone else.They want to be kind to their best friend, Anjali. Politics explores cr...