A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to!

Utterly Monkey

From a rising young novelist comes an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London.

 When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt and heartbreak. As David plays reluctant witness (and more) to James and Ruth's escalating love affair, he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life.

 Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the fault lines of desire, truth and jealousy. With wit and compassion, Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance, among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.

Glover’s Mistake

A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to.

 Danny Williams is talented, upwardly mobile and has left his Northern Irish small town roots well behind him. In his mid-twenties he lives in a stylish London flat and has a job in a top London law firm. However, one innocuous Wednesday night his old mucker from home, Geordie Wilson, arrives at the door. On the run from a loyalist militia, whose operational funds he has taken, he manages to bring everything that Danny has been fleeing from right to his smart London doorstep.

 Taking place over an intense and gripping five-day period-set in both London and the fictional Irish town of Ballyglass-Nick Laird has written an hilarious, touching and ultimately redemptive novel about friendship.

Il secondo romanzo dell'autore di "La banda delle casse da morto" è un gustoso e raffinato dramma psicologico ambientato nella Londra di oggi. David Pinner, trentacinquenne di scarso fascino e blogger frustrato, incontra dopo anni Ruth Marks, una sua ex insegnante, donna di gran classe e artista dal successo internazionale, di cui è infatuato da sempre. Fra i due nasce un'amicizia che agli occhi di David potrebbe preludere a ben altro, ma l'imprevisto è dietro l'angolo, nei panni del suo coinquilino e amico James Glover: un ragazzo molto più giovane e belloccio, di buon cuore e senza nessuna velleità creativa. Fra Ruth e Glover scatta un'insolita attrazione, e David assiste agli sviluppi del loro rapporto con apparente simpatia ma malanimo sempre crescente; chi riuscirà a evitare che la tensione esploda in maniera irreparabile? Laird rilegge la più classica storia shakespeariana di gelosia (ma dall'inedita prospettiva dello Iago di turno) trasferendola in un mondo di intellettuali patinato e pretenzioso di cui ci offre una satira degna del miglior Woody Allen.

L’errore di Glover

Maud est un adorable cochon d'Inde... en tenue de judo. Etrange, elle ne serait pas un peu dingo ? Un album qui invite à être soi-même, car c'est finalement ce que l'on sait faire le mieux !

Utterly Monkey

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