What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of Edinburgh and showed him a remote, dangerous village in Africa? What would happen if you flew Alex Garland into one of the world's most hazardous war zones? And how would Tony Hawks react if you dragged him away from his tennis and asked him to write a song with a Sudanese tribesman? With Victoria Glendinning, Andrew O'Hagan, Giles Foden and WF Deedes, these writers have experienced for themselves one of the most beautiful and yet troubled lands in the world - The Sudan. This remarkable collection of short stories and evocative travel writing is their response - as diverse and unpredictable as the country itself.

The Weekenders : Travels in the Heart of Africa

Travel

Alex, Garland

Travel Writing

Random House]

Gripping from the first pages, Garland's new novel is set over three hours during one night in Manila. With the pace and suspense of "The Beach", this novel intertwines three stories: the shady dealings of gangsters, the tautly and emotionally drawn tale of a Phillipino family and the violent lives of a gang of street kids, until their different lives collide in a shattering finale. It is beautifully written and unputdownable. 'Is Alex Garland the new Graham Greene? After "The Tesseract" the question needs to be asked ...a powerful narrative drive, exotic locations that unfold like a corrupt and mysterious flower, and a moody intelligence that holds everything together' - JG Ballard.

The Tesseract

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

The tesseract

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Beach

The Beach (Penguin Student Editions)

the tesseract

In less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husbands car, and thirteen-year-old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street-kids dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide . . .

Genre Fiction

Late at night in a seedy hotel, richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, and island garden of eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a thai marine park next morning, richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists the challenge is irresistible, and richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of shangri-la

This is a classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

Beach

VIKING

Warner Bros.

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