Colm Toibin - Böcker

Thomas Mann växer upp i den nordtyska hamnstaden Lübeck. Fadern är konservativ och auktoritär, modern undflyende och oberäknelig. Den lille pojken lär sig tidigt att aldrig låta någon få veta vad han verkligen känner: i hemlighet ägnar han sig åt ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and fa...

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Året är 1895 och Henry James nya pjäs gör dunderfiasko i London samtidigt som Oscar Wildes senaste går för fulla hus på teatern bredvid. James bestämmer sig omedelbart för att fly staden och slicka såren. I sin självvalda exil börjar han att minna...

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Myten om Agamemnon och Klytaimnestra står i fokus i Colm Tóibíns nya kritikerhyllade roman. Samma dag som hans dotter ska gifta sig beordrar Agamemnon hennes död. Hon förs till offerplatsen och kort därefter råder gynnsamma vindar så att fadern sn...

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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The re...

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unforgettable' Mary Beard 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her ...

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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an e...

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most re...

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The Hour of the Star , Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the sl...

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It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender a...

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Thomas Mann växer upp i en by på den tyska landsbygden. Fadern är konservativ och auktoritär, modern undflyende och oberäknelig. Den lille pojken lär sig tidigt att aldrig låta någon få veta vad han verkligen känner: i hemlighet ägnar han sig åt k...

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An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin __________________ In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats ...

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* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town,...

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No book since Mrs Shelley's Frankenstein, or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror - Poe is nowhere..."-Charlotte Stoker (Mother of Bram Stoker). Originally published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has spawned ...

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"Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work” (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and th...

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From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wron...

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It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the ...

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Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He ...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín's first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family through a modern Joycean lens Fans of Colm Tóibín's novels including Brooklyn, The Master, and Nora We...

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Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families” (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires” (The Evening Standard) in this...

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I den gamla staden Efesos lever Maria ensam, flera år efter sonens korsfästelse. Hon vägrar att sam-arbeta med lärjungarna, vilka ser efter henne och ger henne kost och logi. De hälsar ofta på henne, trots att hon motsätter sig deras syn på att he...

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Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen'...

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With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had le...

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Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Th...

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Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Th...

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Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis L...

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From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families. In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship between ...

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In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. 'I imagined lamplight, ...

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The downloadable, digital audiobook edition of Colm Toibin's new novel, read by Fiona Shaw. It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just di...

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