Tobias Hill emerged in the 1990s as a poet and short story writer, quickly establishing a reputation for vivid imagery and keen observation. His poetry, often drawing inspiration from his experiences abroad, captures fleeting moments with luminous prose. Hill's short stories delve into a diverse range of human experiences, showcasing his versatility and narrative skill. He has since solidified his place as a novelist, crafting intricate worlds and exploring complex characters with a distinctive voice.
The longest of these stories explores the Japanese underworld. Other topics include a young father's inability to eradicate the ghostly memories of his little twins who have died, and a group of children daring each other in a game of depravity while their parents sip drinks.
London in the aftermath of war: children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of their past; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that the world owes them, wherever it leads them, whatever the cost.
Eine ungewöhnliche Mischung aus spannungsgeladener Handlung und historischen Fakten Der junge Archäologe Ben Mercer ist Spezialist für Sparta, für den legendären Staat, der den Terror perfektioniert hat. Ben hat Frau und Kind verlassen und sich in einer griechischen Kleinstadt verkrochen. Dort trifft er eines Tages einen Kollegen aus Oxford wieder. Eine folgenschwere Begegnung: Bald arbeitet er an einer Ausgrabung mit, einem weiteren Versuch, hinter die Geheimnisse Spartas zu kommen. Ben spürt, dass seine Kollegen aber noch andere Motive haben, dass die Grabung vielleicht nur eine Tarnung für etwas ganz anderes ist. Bens Wunsch, zu dieser Gemeinschaft dazuzugehören und dieses Geheimnis zu teilen, hat einen ungeheuer hohen Preis. Tobias Hill hat mit "Verborgen" einen enorm spannungsgeladenen Roman über unser Zeitalter des Terrors geschrieben.
'A supremely elegant and ambiguous thriller.' - The Sunday Times
'I am following the traces of a great jewel. All its owners are dead, and the jewel is lost...' Precious stones are thousands of years old. They pass through the hands of owners and smugglers, merchants and thieves. Often the hands leave no trace, but they are there all the same: they leave impressions, invisible, like atoms of hydrogen drawn to the surface of a diamond. The Love of Stones charts three lives linked by one such jewel. Katherine Sterne searches the goldsmiths' quarters and hidden archives of contemporary London, Tokyo and Istanbul, following the trail of a long-lost jewel: a brooch of rubies, diamonds and pearls once worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Two hundred years earlier, a pair of Iraqi Jewish brothers travel to London, their fortunes made by an unearthed jar of mysterious and priceless stones. An epic story spanning two continents and six centuries, The Love of Stones follows three very different people, each in their own way consumed by the same desire. At the heart of their lives is the Three Brethren, the legendary jewel that binds them together in a narrative as clear and irresistible as the facets of a diamond.
Among the rush-hour crowds and abandoned levels of the London Underground, someone is pushing women under trains. In his search for the killer, Casimir, a Tube worker, is led ever deeper into this city beneath the city. Below the bright crowds and tunnel musicians is a labyrinth of long-forgotten cross-passages, deep shelters and derelict Victorian stations. Hunting for clues that will lead him to the killer, Casimir is also drawn back into his own past and the terrible secrets of his Polish childhood. In subterranean London, Casimir has gone to ground. But in his desperate search he discovers a chance for forgiveness and the emergence of a new life. Underground is a compelling, intensely atmospheric first novel. It confirms Tobias Hill as an author who, in the words of the Observer, 'writes the kind of fiction that can change the way you look at the world'.