Colin Bateman, ex giornalista dell'Irlanda del Nord, si è affermato come un romanziere celebrato. Le sue opere sono caratterizzate da un acuto sguardo sulla natura umana, esplorando spesso complesse dinamiche interpersonali. Lo stile di scrittura di Bateman è abile e coinvolgente, attirando i lettori nelle sue narrazioni con una voce avvincente. La sua prosa è lodata per la sua autenticità e risonanza emotiva, rendendo le sue storie profondamente incisive.
It's bad enough having a name like Nathan Jones - unless you're a Supremes fan, which Nathan isn't - but when his girlfriend leaves him (for a drag artist) and he gets mugged, then handcuffed to a bed and cut up in a misunderstanding with an S&M hooker, can things get any worse?
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
MYSTERY MAN, the first novel in this brilliant new series, was a Richard & Judy choice in 2009 and has sold over 100,000 copies
Adapted for film, but also a bona-fide Bateman novel in its own right, WILD ABOUT HARRY is this 'dark and brilliant champion of words' at his very best.
'You don't say no to Dr. Yes', the charismatic plastic surgeon on the fast track to fame and fortune. But when the wife of obscure and paranoid crime writer Augustine Morrow disappears shortly after entering his exclusive clinic, the Small Bookseller with No Name is persuaded to investigate. As fatherhood approaches, our intrepid hero is interested only in a quick buck and the chance to exploit a neglected writer, but he soon finds himself up to his neck in murder, make-up and madness -- and face to face with the most gruesome serial killer since the last one.
Celebrity scandal, revenge, and a very big mouse...
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
Dark and irreverent, MOHAMMED MAGUIRE is a wickedly funny fable by bestselling author Bateman.
The gloves are off - Dan Starkey is back in an all-American adventure
Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice