John Niven Libri

Dopo una settimana di vacanza che sarebbero cinque secoli di tempo terrestre, Dio torna in ufficio, ancora col cappello di paglia e la camicia a quadri. Era andato in vacanza, a pescare, in pieno Rinascimento, quando i terrestri scoprivano un continente alla settimana, e sembrava andasse tutto a gonfie vele. Al suo ritorno però, il quadro che gli fanno i suoi ha del catastrofico: il pianeta ridotto a un immondezzaio, genocidi come se piovesse, preti che molestano i bambini... Dio non è solo ultradepresso. Anche molto incazzato. L'unica soluzione, pensa, è rispedire sulla Terra quello strafatto di suo figlio. - Sei sicuro sia una buona idea? - gli chiede Gesù. - Non ti ricordi cosa è successo l'altra volta? - Ma Dio è irremovibile. Così Gesù Cristo piomba a New York, tra sballoni e drop out di ogni tipo. E cerca, come può, di dare una mano agli sfigati della terra. Il ragazzo non sa fare niente, eccetto suonare la chitarra. E riesce a finire in un programma di talenti alla tv. Un gran bel modo per fare arrivare il suo messaggio a un sacco di gente. Ma, come già in passato, anche oggi chi sta dalla parte dei marginali non è propriamente ben visto dalle autorità.

Susan Frobisher e Julie Wickham si stanno avvicinando alla sessantina. Vivono in un piccolo paesino del Dorset e sono amiche dai tempi della scuola. Le solite sospette di John Niven è un divertente romanzo che racconta in modo spietato come vogliamo essere e come siamo in realtà. In apparenza infatti Susan ha tutto: una bellissima casa e un lungo matrimonio con Barry. La vita non è stata così clemente con Julie, ma adesso, dopo diversi lavori fallimentari e pessime relazioni sentimentali lasciate alle spalle, ha trovato la sua stabilità: vive in un grazioso appartamento e lavora in una casa di riposo per anziani. Il mondo della splendida Susan viene però repentinamente messo sottosopra quando il suo amato Barry viene trovato morto in un appartamento segreto, o meglio, in una casa del sesso. La donna viene così tristemente a conoscenza della doppia vita del marito e si ritrova anche senza casa visto che l’uomo era pieno di debiti e la banca decide di toglierle tutto. Le due amiche però escogitano un piano e dopo aver conosciuto un vecchio gangster pronto ad aiutarle decidono di gabbare loro la banca. Ma sarà davvero così facile come pensano? Ad aiutarle un gruppo di vecchie e pazze amiche pronte a tutto, anche alla fuga, pur di fuggire dalla loro noiosa vita. Le solite sospette di John Niven è un romanzo sull’amicizia, in tarda età, sulle donne della middle class inglese raccontate da uno dei più divertenti autori britannici.

An instant Sunday Times bestseller, O Brother is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious - evoking a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt the survivors of suicide

In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth - no, sixth? - child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from some of the luxuries Jada has never been able to enjoy in his tiny flat in a Brutalist sixties council block. Both men find that the birth of their sons has fired their ambitions. Dan plans to walk away from his saccharine TV success and finally knuckle down to writing that novel he always felt he had in him. While, for Jada, it's the opportunity for one last get-rich-quick scheme - ripping off a local airport. When a tragedy occurs, their worlds are brought closer than either could ever have imagined - close enough that it could mean destruction for both of them . . .

But it's also a proper novel about the Trumpian era, of the reality TV era, the fake news era.

Only two things would improve Gary Irvine's life - children and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely- Gary's wife Pauline is planning to leave him for a self-made carpet millionaire, and unfortunately Gary is an appalling golfer. Meanwhile, in the murky depths of the criminal underclass, Gary's luckless brother Lee has botched up too many drug deals, and local crime overlord Ranta Campbell understands the PR value of a certain kind of violence to keep people in line. He gives Lee one more job, one last chance to get it right...Then Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and knocked into a coma. He wakes to find that the neurological trauma he's suffered has resulted in some pretty radical side effects - among them an absolutely perfect golf swing.Their stories converge as the two brothers stumble into uncharted territory - Lee towards murder and Gary teeing it up in the Open Championship...

"It is 2017 - the time of Trump and Brexit. The time for the return of Steven Stelfox - exactly twenty years on from his Britpop heyday. Now forty-six, and rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he works only occasionally as a music industry 'consultant'. A fixer. A problem solver. He's had a call from his old friend James Trellick, who is now president of Unigram, one of the largest record companies in America. Trellick has a huge headache on his hands in the shape of... Lucius Du Pre. The biggest pop star on earth. Well, he was the biggest pop star on earth. Now he's a helpless junkie and a prolific, unrepentant paedophile. Through a programme of debt restructuring so complex even Trellick can barely understand it, Du Pre is also now massively in hock to the record company. The only way he can possibly pay it off is to embark on an enormous comeback tour he's in no shape to do. The picture is further complicated when the parents of one of Du Pre's 'special friends' begin blackmailing him. If their video gets out, Du Pre's brand will be utterly toxic, taking Unigram down with it. With stealth and cunning Stelfox begins to chart a road out of the nightmare. Needless to say, the body count on this road will be high."--Provided by publisher

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. They live in a small Dorset town and have been friends since school. On the surface Susan has it all - a lovely house and a long marriage to accountant Barry. Life has not been so kind to Julie, but now, with several failed businesses and bad relationships behind her, she has found stability: living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. Then Susan's world is ripped apart when Barry is found dead in a secret flat - or rather, a sex dungeon. It turns out Barry has been leading a double life as a swinger. He's run up a fortune in debts, and now the bank is going to take Susan's home. Until, under the influence of an octogenarian gangster named Nails, the women decide that, rather than let the bank take everything Susan has, they're going to take the bank. With the help of Nails and a thrill-crazy, wheelchair-bound friend they pull off the daring robbery, but soon find that getting away with it is not so easy.

"Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do in his life, he instead has at the ready his 'fuck-it list'. Because Frank has had to endure more than his fair share of personal misfortune, not to mention having to live through two terms of a Trump presidency. Armed with the names of all those who are to blame for the tragedies that have befallen him, it's time for revenge." Klappentext.