Ingenious Pain
8 best books like Ingenious Pain (Andrew Miller): Agent Running in the Field, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Offshore, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, G., Reasons to Be Cheerful, Famous People, Kallbrand
Agent Running in the Field
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 1984878875 |
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0006542565 |
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0140446311 |
It was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century.....
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0679736549 |
In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and...
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241240522 |
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell...
This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star
Why I really decided to write this book now is like, the world seems to be spinning out of control, you know? People are so mad at each other. People are taking life so seriously. People...
På Mekongfloden i Thailand glider den förre polisen och uteliggaren Tom Stilton fram i en primitiv kanot. I fickan har han ett foto på en okänd man och namnet på en försvunnen flodbåt. Han är på väg in i Gyllene triangeln, på jakt efter en mörk hemlighet - en resa som får honom att rannsaka...
