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»Da kommt Gott – tut so, als wärt ihr beschäftigt« - der SPIEGEL-Bestseller von John Niven zum Thema Nächstenliebe Kaum hat Gott sich im Himmel eine kleine Auszeit gegönnt und Seinem Sohn Jesus Christus die Geschäftsführung überlassen, schon herrscht auf Erden das nackte Chaos. Bürgerkriege, Umweltsünden, Armut, Hassprediger, tödliche Krankheiten, moralischer Verfall und gnadenloser Kommerz, so weit das Auge reicht. Was wurde aus der Menschenliebe und dem einzig wahren Gebot: SEID LIEB? Gott denkt nach und findet nur eine Lösung – Sein Sohn Jesus muss erneut auf die Erde zurückkehren, um Gutes zu tun. Doch werden die Menschen auf JC hören?

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

You are dying. Who do you kill? Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently so keen to pursue have been a reality for some years and are getting even more extreme – an erosion of abortion rights, less and less gun control, xenophobic immigration policies. Frank, a good man, 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. And he has the names of those who are to blame for all of the tragedies that have befallen him. But eventually, as he becomes more accustomed to dishing out cold revenge and the stakes get higher and higher, and with a rogue county sheriff on his tail, there only remains one name left at the bottom of his fuck-it list. Part political satire, part compulsive thriller, The F*ck-it List is John Niven at his coruscating best.

"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

***Now available for preorder- KILL 'EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS*** The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friendsand Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? How about when he turns out to be a friend you haven't seen in twenty years? Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way? Give him a wad of middle-class guilt money? Or take him in and get him back on his feet? For Alan, there's no question - only natural that he'd want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes. But what if the successful life you've made for yourself - good job, happy marriage, lovely kids, grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom, thank you very much) - is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too? Even if it means taking it from you? Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deedis a funny and painful examination of friendship, the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades, and of men getting older as they fail and succeed.

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 Irvine has a beautiful wife who refuses to have sex with him. To allay his frustrations he shoves his heart, soul, and cash into the gaping maw of the even more dismissive mistress that is golf. Yet despite his best efforts, his game is wretched, the ball defies him, the hole eludes him, and hes often moved to shameful blubbering in the mens locker room after particularly nasty rounds. Until one day, taking a lesson from a friend of his late father, a moment of clarity comes upon him and a movement of grace sends his ball flying in a classic draw, onto the green, and into the hole. Then everything goes black. After waking up from a coma a few weeks later, with seemingly nothing worse than a golf-ball-sized dent in his temple, Gary returns to the course to find that he cannot go wrong. Every drive, iron shot, chip, and putt unfolds as if the game of golf lay undressed and willing before him. The head trauma seemingly imprinted that last perfect swing on his brain. However, his friends begin to notice something of a strange, audible tick. A stream of muttered expletives pour from Garys mouth as if it flowed from the River Styx. He cant control what he says. In a stressful golf match his cursing only worsens - and is directed at opposing golfers, spectators, young mothers, and children - and in fact evolves into another troubling symptom: extreme sexual arousal and a crippling need to expose himself...