Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist and poet, celebrated for his stylistically refined novels. His work often explores themes of love and desire, characterized by a keen insight into the human psyche. Adair was also a respected translator, masterfully rendering postmodern literary experiments into English. His essays and film criticism further reveal a deep understanding of art and its societal impact.
The enchanting adventures of Alice, created by Lewis Carroll, have captivated readers of all ages for nearly 150 years. The conclusion of "Through the Looking-Glass" leaves many feeling a sense of loss, as it marks the end of her whimsical journeys. Carroll's imaginative storytelling continues to resonate, inviting both children and adults into a fantastical world filled with memorable characters and surreal experiences.
At 16, Gideon realizes he prefers boys while listening to "Mr. Sandman" during awkward moments with his girlfriend. Eight years later, as a language teacher in Paris, he struggles to fit into the vibrant gay scene. After fabricating a love life, he unexpectedly finds adventure, but faces the looming shadow of AIDS. Adair sensitively portrays Gideon's journey of sexual self-discovery and pride.
The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion. Except Evadne Mount, of course, the stubborn amateur sleuth and bestselling crime novelist from Gilbert Adair's "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" and "A Mysterious Affair of Style". Neither of those two cases, however, prepared her for the jaw-dropping twists of this new investigation, which climaxes at Meiringen's principal tourist attraction, the Reichenbach Falls - the site of Holmes' fatal confrontation with his nemesis, Moriarty ...
But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon.Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits.
London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing another, earlier, still unsolved murder yet, on that occasion, not one of them had the opportunity...
Paris in the spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française. Night after night, they take their place beside their fellow cinephiles in the very front row of the stalls and feast insatiably off the images that flicker across the vast white screen.Denied their nightly 'fix' when the French government suddenly orders the Cinémathèque's closure, Théo, Isabelle and Matthew gradually withdraw into a hermetically sealed universe of their own creation, an airless universe of obsessive private games, ordeals, humiliations and sexual jousting which finds them shedding their clothes and their inhibitions with equal abandon. A vertiginous free fall interrupted only, and tragically, when the real world outside their shuttered apartment succeeds at last in encroaching on their delirium.The study of a triangular relationship whose perverse eroticism contrives nevertheless to conserve its own bruised purity, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in its imagery, The Dreamers (now a major film by Bernardo Bertolucci) belongs to the romantic French tradition of Les Enfants Terribles and Le Grand Meaulnes and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.
The story explores the tumultuous emotions of a British author who unexpectedly falls for an American teenage pop star, marking his first attraction to another man. As he navigates this unrequited love, his life descends into chaos. Drawing on literary references like DEATH IN VENICE and LOLITA, the narrative blends humor and heartbreak, offering a compelling portrayal of desire and obsession. This novel serves as a tie-in to the film featuring Jason Priestly and John Hurt.
