Bøger af Scarlett Thomas

The bestselling, critically acclaimed novel of cursed books, quantum physics and the power of love

The new adult novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, about power, privilege and peer pressure

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of the Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing the “beautiful people,” the seemingly endless number of young models and musicians lounging along the Mediterranean, Evelyn is wary of the hotel’s owner, Isabella, who seems to only have eyes for Richard. Isabella ostensibly disapproves of every request Evelyn makes, seemingly annoyed at the fact that they are there at all. Isabella is also preoccupied with her chance to enthrall the only other guests—an American producer named Marcus and his partner Debbie—with the story of “the sleepwalkers,” a couple who had stayed at the hotel recently and drowned. Everyone seems to want to talk about the sleepwalkers, save for Hamza, a young Turkish man Evelyn had seen with some “beautiful people,” as well as the “dapper little man”—the strange yet fashionable owner of the island’s lone antiques and gift shop she sees everywhere. But what at first seemed eccentric, decorative, or simply ridiculous, becomes a living nightmare. Evelyn and Richard are separated the night of the storm and forced to face dark truths, but it’s their confessions around the origins of their relationship and the years leading up to their marriage that might save them. Exhilarating, suspenseful, and also very funny, The Sleepwalkers asks urgent questions about relationships, sexuality, and the darkest elements of contemporary society—where our most terrible secrets are hidden in plain sight.

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Limited"--Title page verso.

Effie, Wolf, Raven, and Max are faced with their most challenging adventure yet in the third installment of the magical series that "Kirkus Reviews" calls "tailor-made for Harry Potter's fans."

Can a story save your life?Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting.But who wants to live forever?Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what's the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever?Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.

A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want toAt forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. She’d quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She’d had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Her parents started to get sick right around the time she realized she was never going to be a mother herself. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible. She was supposed to grow up, but she didn’t know how. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing she’d loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis. Thomas knows she’s not the only person to have wondered whether throwing enough money and time and passion at something can make your dream come true. 41–Love is heartbreaking but frequently funny as Thomas finds she’ll do anything to win—almost anything.

The third in the thrilling Worldquake sequence, packed with adventuring, a magical library, Midwinter spells and missing cats. With a magical glow-in-the-dark cover

The second in the thrilling Worldquake sequence, packed with adventure - featuring mysterious new spells, talking animals and a deadly plan to destroy the worlds! See it come to life with a magical glow-in-the-dark cover

How to write fiction and unlock the secret power of stories

The first in the thrilling and magical Worldquake Sequence from Scarlett Thomas, author of the bestselling adult novel The End of Mr Y. Featuring special powers, magical books and a secret world!

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y

The mindmelting classic of puzzles, maths and globalisation from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y

One of Scarlett Thomas's best-loved novels

The brilliant new mind-frazzling adventure from the author of the 150,000 copy-selling The End of Mr. Y

Ariel Manto, Ph.D. studerende og outsider, træder ind i et antikvariat og får ved et tilfælde fat i en ekstrem sjælden roman Mr. Y’s forbandelse, oprindeligt udgivet i 1893, kan hun ikke tro sine egne øjne. Hun har læst om forfatteren før – den viktorianske videnskabsmand Thomas Lumas, og dette er hans mest berygtede og uopdrivelige værk. Det siges også, at den er forbandet. Alle der har læst den, inklusive Lumas selv, er døde eller forsvundet sporløst. Med romanen under armen bliver Ariel kastet ud i et eventyr af tro, fysik, kærlighed, død og alt derimellem. Mr. Y’s forbandelse indeholder bl.a. en opskrift eller en anvisning på, hvordan man kan træde ind i ”Troposfæren” – et sted hvor al bevidsthed er forbundet og du kan bevæge dig gennem andre menneskers tanker. Men det hele er vel ren fiktion? Det er jo trods alt en roman. På den anden side: Ariel foretrækker fiktion frem for virkelighed. Og hun vil vide alt, inklusive alt om Troposfæren og hvorvidt sådan noget rent faktisk kunne findes eller ej. Men snart løber hun for sit liv – og bevæger sig gennem både fiktion og virkelighed på flugt fra folk, der vil have fat bogen og dens hemmelige viden.Mr.Y’s forbandelse er en vild og syret fortælling om bl.a. videnskab, tro og kærlighed.