James Meek Livres

Roman historique. Roman d'aventures. Roman philosophique.

The book delves into the privatization of essential British services and infrastructure over the past thirty years, revealing the human impact of these changes. Through compelling portraits and narratives, it illustrates how public assets have been transferred to private owners, leading to rising costs for consumers while the new owners profit. Meek's urgent and poignant exploration serves as a critical examination of the nation's transformation, appealing to those interested in social and economic issues.

The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love

The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.

Ritchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies. Gallingly, his sister, Bec, a scientist developing a crucial vaccine, is as addicted to truth-telling as Ritchie is to falsehood. Ritchie relies on her certitude even as he seethes with resentment. A devastating chain of events is set into motion when Bec tells her fiance, Val, a powerful tabloid editor, that she can't bring herself to marry him after all. Val has set himself up as the moral arbiter of the nation, which will turn out to be impeccable camouflage for an elaborate revenge plot intended to destroy Bec by exposing the people who are close to her - which now include Alex, a brilliant researcher in gene therapies who is so desperate to have a family of his own that Bec finds herself willing to lie and cheat in order to get him what he wants.

From the prize-winning author of The People's Act of Love and We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

The message was short. 'I want to see you now. I want you to come to me, it doesn't matter how late it is, and tell me exactly what you want from me.'Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Adam Kellas's life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart. Against his better judgement, Kellas - divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts a war assignment from his newspaper. It is the beginning of a journey which takes him from the mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London, the marshlands of the American South and, ultimately, to the darkest realms of the human imagination. Only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid, a fellow reporter in Afghanistan, offers him the possibility of hope.With all the explosive drama of The People's Act of Love, James Meek's new novel spans continents and cultures. It is a timeless tale of folly and the pursuit of love, set against the incendiary politics of our time.

O manželství, lásce, dětech, smrti, věrnosti, zradě, hledání věčného mládí, pokrytectví a především o tom, co to znamená být dobrým člověkem. Sourozenci, kteří si v ničem nejsou podobní: Ritchie – bohatý a ze svého pohledu šťastně ženatý a milující muž ve skutečnosti sice v roli manžela, otce i bratra morálně selhává, přesto se mu daří své chování podle potřeby racionalizovat a ani ho nenapadne, že by snad nebyl v podstatě dobrým člověkem. Přitom je zřejmé, že je to slaboch, který nikdy neodolá čokoládovému pudinku a dvojité whisky, natož nymfičkám pod zákonem. Jeho cesta od bouřlivácké rockové hvězdy k televiznímu producentovi načančané reality show je lemovaná podvody a mimomanželskými vztahy. Bec – mladší sestra, se snaží i za cenu vlastního sebezničení objevit vakcínu proti malárii, žije si po svém, na společenské konvence a pokryteckou morálku kašle, přesto se snaží žít eticky. A katalyzátor příběhu – Val, bývalý přítel Bec, psychopat, fanatik, majitel „Žumpy“ – bulváru, který vytahuje špínu na známé osobnosti, které se nevykoupí tím, že mu poskytnou špinavé pikantnosti o někom jiném. V jeho osidlech uvázne záletný Ritchie. Jak daleko bude ochoten zajít, aby si zachránil svou vlastní kůži?