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Ned Beauman

    January 1, 1985
    Ned Beauman
    Flieg, Hitler, flieg!
    Warum der Wahnsinn einer Niederlage vorzuziehen ist
    The Teleportation Accident
    Venomous Lumpsucker
    Glow
    Beneath the Skin
    • Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.

      Beneath the Skin
    • Glow

      • 258 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.6(13)Add rating

      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.

      Glow
    • The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one. In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save. Together, they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. And the further they go, the deeper they're drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?

      Venomous Lumpsucker
    • The Teleportation Accident

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(4086)Add rating

      When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him can't, just once in a while, get himself laid. From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it

      The Teleportation Accident
    • England, 1934: Seth „Sinner“ Roach ist nicht der Größte, aber als Preisboxer schlägt er sich trotzdem mit hartem Punch durchs Leben. Bis ihm der reiche Müßiggänger und Hobby-Wissenschaftler Philip Erskine begegnet, ein Anhänger der Eugenik oder, wie die Nazis sagen, „Rassenhygiene“. Bei einer Expedition ist er auf einen Käfer mit interessanter Hakenkreuz-Musterung gestoßen, den er durch geschickte Züchtung äußerst stark und zäh gemacht hat: Anophthalmus hitleri. Nun will er seine Forschung auf Menschen ausdehnen. Sinner verkauft dem Nazi seinen Körper. Aber dessen Interesse ist nicht nur wissenschaftlicher Natur … England, heute: Kevin „Fishy“ Broom leidet an einer seltenen Krankheit, die ihre Opfer nach altem Fisch stinken lässt. Doch als Sammler von Nazi-Memorabilien hat er einen guten Riecher. Als er auf einen Brief Hitlers an einen gewissen Erskine stößt, erhält er nächtlichen Besuch von einem bewaffneten Fremden. Spürnase Fishy soll ihm bei der Suche nach der letzten Ruhestätte von Seth Roach helfen. Gemeinsam machen sie am Grab des Boxers eine schreckliche Entdeckung … Ned Beaumans erstaunliches Debüt ist so reich an Wissen und Witz, dass der Autor schon jetzt mit Michael Chabon und David Foster Wallace verglichen wird. Werden Sie Zeuge, wie er das Geheimnis um Hitlers Käfer auf unnachahmliche Weise lüftet!

      Flieg, Hitler, flieg!