Bøger af Ewan Morrison

Haley and Ben's father, with inside knowledge of a new and deadly pandemic, kidnaps them and takes them to his prepper compound for their own safety. They have no contact with the outside world and face deeply conflicting views of reality with no reliable source of news. Will they survive, save their mother, deter intruders and keep everyone safe?

”MENNESKER KAN OVERLEVE I CIRKA FYRRE DAGE UDEN MAD, CIRKA TRE DAGE UDEN VAND, CIRKA OTTE MINUTTER UDEN LUFT, MEN IKKE SÅ MEGET SOM ÉT SEKUND UDEN HÅB. DET LÆRTE VI AF VORES FAR. HAN SAGDE, AT VI SKULLE VÆRE FORBEREDT PÅ DET, DER VILLE SKE. HAN SAGDE, AT DET VAR BEDRE AT VÆRE TI ÅR FOR TIDLIGT PÅ DEN END ET MINUT FOR SENT. DET VAR DERFOR, HAN GJORDE, SOM HAN GJORDE DEN MORGEN.” Således indleder skotske Ewan Morrison sin seneste roman, ”Sådan Overlever Man Alt”, en teenagepiges overlevelsesguide til at navigere gennem livet under en ny, endnu mere dødbringende pandemi, skrevet fra et hemmeligt gemmested. Vil hun overleve det totale kollaps af alt det, hun troede, hun vidste, og kan hun redde sin familie - og sin forstand? Med en ultimativt dødbringende pandemi og en aldeles dysfunktionel familierelation, med en far der tror på verdens undergang og en mor, der demonstrativt gør det modsatte, samt hvad der i øvrigt naturligt strømmer igennem krop og sind på en 16-årig pige, er dette både en dystopisk lockdown-fortælling og et varmt portræt af en sarkastisk teenager, hvor det lykkes Ewan Morrison at skildre samtlige af romanens karakterer troværdigt. Læseren overbevises om de mange præmisser folk lever under og præsenteres for gennem romanen: Detaljerede lister af forberedelser til et liv i et afsides overlevelsesrum. Forskellige skadelige dynamikker, der opstår, når snigende angst, sindssyge, paranoia og depression får overtaget i et liv i isolation. Men også en overbevisende portrættering af følelsesregistre hos en intelligent teenagepige, hvis ironi og tørre humor gør romanen særegent morsom. Derfor appellerer bogen utrolig bredt – til alle med interesse i familie-dynamikker, Teenage-angst og psykologi, og hvordan vi alle reagerer forskelligt, når pandemien rammer. ”How to Survive Everything” var longlisted til McIlvanney Award og shortlisted til Bookmark Festival Book of the Year i 2021 og har fået positiv modtagelse i både pressen og blandt forfatter-kolleger. Tidligere har Ewan Morrison vundet Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year i 2019 (for “Nina X”) ligesom han har vundet Book of the Year Fiction Prize i 2013 og Glenfiddich Scottish Writer of the Year i 2012. "Sådan Overlever Man Alt” er oversat til dansk af Rasmus Hastrup, der er kendt for sine anmelderroste oversættelser af Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, John Irving, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwells samt Screaming Books’ egen Daisy Johnson.

Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with this darkly comic and electrifyingly twisty thriller with echoes of Emily St. John Mandel, Lionel Shriver, and Richard Powers, in which a teenage girl and her brother are abducted by their survivalist father who believes the apocalypse has begun."An absolutely brilliant read."?Lucy Mangan, journalist and author of Are We Having Fun Yet?"Hilarious, foreboding with all of the brilliance and brutality of life in between. Haley is the hero of our times?bold, bewitching, and superbly drawn. Her voice rang in my ears long after I reluctantly turned the last page."?Diane Cook, author of the Booker Prize nominated novel The New WildernessMy name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can't tell you about.Children of divorce, Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad believes there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming and is determined to keep them alive. He wants to take them to his prepper hideaway where they will be safe from other people. NOW. But there's no way their mother will go along with his plan. Saving them requires extreme measures.Kidnapped by their father and confined to his compound far off the grid, Haley and Ben have no contact with the outside world. How can they save their mother? Will they make it out alive? Is the threat real?or is this all just a dark fantasy brought on by their conspiracy obsessed father's warped imagination?Propulsive and chilling in its realism, How to Survive Everything is the story of a world imploding; a teenage girl's record for negotiating the collapse of everything she knows?including her family and sanity.

The story of Nina X's imprisonment, and her path to eventual freedom, is compelling and chilling and all too believable. She is a character to stand alongside Offred of The Handmaid's Tale and Jack of Room

Nina X has never been outside. She has never met another child. She has no mother and no father; she has Comrade Chen, and Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project; she is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything in her journal, to track her thoughts. To keep her ideology pure, her words are erased, over and over again.But that was before. Now Nina is in Freedom, and all the rules have changed. She has to remember that everything is the opposite of what she was told, and yet still the world doesn't make any sense.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, featuring two of the artist's most important and compelling works, together with a recent sculpture "Tate Modern on Fire 2017".

Tom and Meg fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they plan to reunite in eight weeks. Meanwhile in New York, Meg throws in her job as a Hollywood script doctor, and begins writing from her heart, secretly recording every detail of their intense week together.

The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out'Christopher Tsiolkas, author of The SlapIn 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return.

It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting, dole-scrounging, swapping drugs, clothes and beds. Fifteen years later they are drawn back into each other's lives but can they happily relive the past or will they rekindle the passions that nearly destroyed them?

Impotent Scottish HR employee David leaves his family and begins a relationship with an American woman named Alice. With David teetering on the brink of unemployment, Alice decides they need help, and a remedy that starts out with sexy bedtime stories ends up right in the thick of Glasgow's swinging scene.