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.

GARY is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely. PAULINE is wondering how she ended up living in an ugly little house, driving a second-hand car and making a living dressing up as Tinkerbell. She's planning to leave Gary for a self-made carpet millionaire. FINDLAY, the Carpet King of Scotland, wants to trade in his obese wife for a younger model. But if he goes for a divorce she'll take him to the cleaners. If only there was some way she could be made to disappear... LEE, Gary's luckless brother, has botched one too many drug deals. Local crime overlord Ranta Campbell gives him one more job - one last chance to get it right. Lee's done some bad things - but murder? When Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and miraculously develops an absolutely perfect swing, everyone finds their fates rest on the final day of the Open Championship...

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 marriages 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 porn dungeon. It turns out Barry has been leading a fantastical double life as a swinger. He's run up a fortune in debts. The bank is going to take Susan's house and she'll lose everything she's never worked for. Until, under the influence of an octogenarian gangster named Nails, the women decide that, rather than let the bank take the house, they're going to take the bank. With the help of several thrill-crazy, wheelchair-bound friends they pull off the daring robbery, but soon find that getting away with it is not so easy. Setting off across Europe, the team pick up a teenage hitchhiker, get entangled with Interpol and the Russian Mafia, and discover that, far from winding down, their lives are only just beginning. The Sunshine Cruise Company is a sharp satire on friendship, ageing, the English middle-classes, the housing bubble and group sex: Thelma and Louise meets the Lavender Hill Mob, written and directed by Tarantino.

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

A terrifying, evocative and gut-wrenching thriller -- announcing the arrival of a major new voice in the genre. You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he spends his days writing for the local newspaper, working on a film script, and acting as house-husband. After a troubled and impoverished upbringing in Scotland, he now has all he wants: a caring wife, a bright and happy son, a generous father-in-law. As the brutal northern winter begins to bite, he can sit back and enjoy life. But his peace is soon broken. There are noises in the nearby woods, signs of some mysterious watcher. When the family dog disappears, Donnie makes a horrifying discovery. Is it wolves, as the police suspect, or something far more dangerous, far darker? What secrets has Donnie been keeping? And why does he have the terrible sense that his dream was never going to last? A taut, shocking and visceral thriller that will leave you gasping for breath, "Cold Hands" is the first in an exciting new series by the remarkable John J. Niven.

"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.

Leroy Upton left his childhood home in a working class neighborhood of Bakersfield to create a life for himself as a father and college professor in northern California. Now his father's health, his friend's ending marriage, and his wife's troubled past force Leroy to fight for the life he has created.