Andrew O'Hagan is een Schotse romanschrijver en non-fictie auteur, gevierd om zijn scherpe verkenningen van de maatschappij en het individuele leven. Zijn verhalen duiken met een kenmerkende stem in complexe thema's en vangen de nuances van menselijke ervaring. O'Hagans kritische erkenning komt voort uit zijn meesterlijke proza en zijn vermogen om diepe waarheden te belichten door middel van meeslepende verhalen. Zijn werk spreekt lezers consequent aan met zijn intellectuele diepgang en emotionele resonantie.
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over.
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gifted Marilyn Monroe a dog named Maf, who had a keen instinct for 20th-century politics, psychoanalysis, literature, and interior design. Andrew O'Hagan's canine hero provides a humorous perspective on his complex life and Monroe's, revealing insights into her life and the extraordinary 1960s.
Clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists. Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. schovat popis
When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...
How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.
Britský deník Daily Telegraph pozval sedm rozdílných anglických autorů na jeden víkend do Súdánu, „aby se osobně angažovali ve válce, která byla do té doby mimo jejich dosah...“ Každý z autorů je mistrem svého žánru – a každý z nich musel vykročit ze svého odlišného, nicméně podobně výlučného světa. Irvine Welsh, znalec drogové subkultury Edinburghu; Alex Garland, nonkonformní autor dobrodružných románů; Victoria Glendinningová, autorka zachycující životy z jiných století; Andrew O’Hagan, pronikavý kronikář současných životů; Bill Deedes, který je již 70 let novinářem, psal poprvé v životě beletrii; a Tony Hawks se pokoušel složit se súdánskými domorodci píseň. Pouze Giles Foden se skupinou necestoval. Jeho příspěvek, o který jsme požádali až později, jelikož jeho zkušenosti z Afriky dodaly knize další rozměr, byl napsán před hrozivými událostmi 11. září.
1960 schenkte Frank Sinatra Marilyn Monroe einen Hund. Sie nannte ihn Mafia Honey, kurz Maf. Für Maf und Marilyn ist es der Beginn einer wunderbaren Freundschaft – schließlich ist er nicht irgendein Hund und sie nicht irgendeine Frau. Klein, weiß und weise ist der Malteser von nun an immer dabei, er belauscht, beobachtet und kommentiert – die aktuelle Schuhmode ebenso wie Scharmützel New Yorker Intellektueller, die Wutausbrüche Frank Sinatras, John F. Kennedy und den American way of life. Und immer wieder Marilyn. Andrew O’Hagans komischer Held ist ein Philosoph auf vier Beinen. Von ganz unten, aber mit großer Übersicht entwirft Maf das Porträt einer besonderen Zeit und einer über alles verehrten Frau. Witzig, liebevoll – und mit dem nötigen Biss.
