Ned Beauman

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years later, a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit the temple for his own ends, unaware that it is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed.Shot through with intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, and showcasing Beauman's riotous humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic, and delightfully insane.

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette . . .For the first time, Britain's most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist's office in Camberwell.

Raf, un joven londinense que se gana la vida en una emisora pirata y paseando a una mascota, malvive entre éxtasis, fiestas nocturnas en lavanderías after hours y restaurantes baratos de comida asiática. Tambien ha probado el glow, la nueva droga birmana. La subita desaparicion de su amigo Theo, el dueño de la emisora, desencadena una accion desenfrenada, que va desde el sur de Londres hasta una oscura aldea de Birmania y que engancha desde las primeras paginas. Una trama densa por la que se circula sin embargo con ligereza. De lo absurdo, de lo marginal y miserable se levanta todo un edificio narrativo de una enorme riqueza de discurso, original como pocos por lo muy alejado de los topicos y estandares del romanticismo cinematografico de la segunda mitad del siglo xx, no menos noble que estos y desde luego mas autentico.

El mercado de Shivaji Nagar, en el corazón de Bangalore, es un hervidero pulsante de vida y comercio, que se convierte en el escenario perfecto para que un asesinato no levante sospechas. Cuando aparece un joven estrangulado, nadie le presta atención, salvo el inspector Gowda, un hombre tan desilusionado con la vida como metódico y obstinado en su trabajo. Mientras la policía yace paralizada por una burocracia asfixiante, Gowda entrevé, tras la aparición de nuevas víctimas, un patrón que se repite, dadas las peculiaridades del arma utilizada y la indumentaria del sospechoso. El lado más oscuro y corrupto de la ciudad irrumpe y sólo gracias al coraje que le inspira la recuperación de un viejo amor, Gowda podrá detener al asesino e intentar recuperar la ilusión por la vida. En una ciudad de contrastes fascinantes entre mercados de especias y la urbe hipertecnológica, mansiones suntuosas y delicados saris, Anita Nair nos acerca a la India del siglo XXI en una trepidante historia en la que se atisba un halo de esperanza tras las intrigas y los secretos de la infancia.

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From the award-winning Ned Beauman, an unquestionably brilliant (TLS) novel that establishes him as one of the exciting and influential voices in modern British fiction.

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette...For the first time, Britain's most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist's office in Camberwell.

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, its all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now were never getting them back. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsuckers last-known habitat.