Rupert Thomson

• Mar-1988
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1991
• / General Fiction
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Moon Beach--place of the dead--where once a year the city observes the Day of the Dead. During one such celebration, two young men from different worlds become the fascinated servants of an entrepreneur of death, whose private passions are intimately...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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In the 1890s, “Lower California” is a land adrift, peopled by Indians and half-breeds, and now by the French as well. The Indians are indifferent to Western notions of time and industry. The French, on the other hand, are sufficiently meticulous ...

• Sep-1996
• / Suspense
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"We are in the dark side of the brain--full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it."
--Michael Ondaatje


With this eerie, provocative, and utterly original novel, Rupert Thomson takes the psychological...

• Sep-1998
• / Suspense
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   Former bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past in his native Plymouth for an uncertain new existence as a barber in London's colorful East End. Waif-like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a...

• Feb-2000
• / Suspense
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In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power.Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio...

• Jan-2005
• / General Fiction
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One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violenc...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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Rupert Thomson--"a true master," according to the San Francisco Chronicle--now gives us his most powerful work yet: the story of a woman who, even after her death, inflames an entire nation, and of the man who comes under her spell. Having spent d...

• Apr-2014
• / Historical
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A sorcerer in wax. A fugitive. Haunted by a past he cannot escape. Threatened by a future he cannot imagine.   Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repre...

• Oct-2015
• / Literary
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An identity crisis leads a young woman -- conceived through IVF -- on a mysterious journey to the end of the world in this breathtakingly original novel about where we come from and how our origins shape us. “A haunting family tale . . . a contem...

• Jun-2018
• / Historical
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates ...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2021
• / Thriller
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New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Three novellas are “cleverly linked together” in this “beguiling love letter to the great city” set before the financial crash of 2008 (Condé Nast Traveller). “Ironic, observant, alert . . . it...

• Oct-2023
• / Thriller
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In this timely and explosive novel, an academic’s seemingly mundane midlife crisis takes an alarming turn after his visit to a Greek monastery.It’s February 2019. Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian with a German wife and a troubled nineteen-ye...