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Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Category: Crime and Thrillers
An adventure story, a war story and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork. This is from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale ab ...Show more
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Category: Fiction
"From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World- an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.b>b>Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Awardfor Science Fiction Literature.b>b>Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathe ...Show more
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Category: Fiction
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can't stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven 'Nick Harkaway's most ambitious novel yet. (A) story ...Show more
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
In a near-future Britain, a distributed surveillance-democracy called The System knows everything you, and can even spy on your mind. It's a Panopticon country. But when state investigators then look into the head of a refusenik novelist named Diana Hunter, what they find there is not her life story but ...Show more
The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World by Nick Harkaway
Category: Science
The digital age. An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human. Or an age of marvels. Where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where we can communicate a ...Show more
The Blind Giant: How to Survive in the Digital Age by Nick Harkaway
Category: Science & Natural History
The digital age. An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human. Or an age of marvels. Where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where we can communicate a ...Show more
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Category: Fiction
The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out - but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings ...Show more
The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A wildly entertaining debut novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor with a stunning futuristic vision to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship and the apocalypse. There couldn't be a fire along the Jorgmund Pipe. It was the last thing the world needed. But the ...Show more
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infusedmission to save the world.Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studiedmartial arts together, the ...Show more
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOOK From the award-winning author of "Angelmaker," "Tigerman" is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind. Sergeant Le ...Show more
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he's nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Les ...Show more
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Category: Fiction
"Gloriously exuberant and entertaining." (Guardian). "A funny, moving and thought-provoking tale...It's brilliant." (Independent on Sunday). Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at. He has no family, he's nearly forty, burned out and about to be ...Show more