Peoples Act Of Love

1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape, a shunnedChristian community practises its esoteric religion. With their town under themilitary rule of a demented Kurtz-like commander fighting the Russian Civil War,they await the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberianrailway.
Then Samarin arrives. Appearing in the community with stories ofescape from Russia’s northernmost prison camp, he claims to have been pursuedby a cannibal known only as "The Mohican." Anna Petrovna, a determinedwidow, feels something for the new arrival, but when the local shaman is founddead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town.
A great rush of a novel, something entirely new disguised in theform of classic historical fiction, The People’s Act of Love isgarnering extraordinary attention, with rights already sold in 25 countries. Anenthralling narrative, two poignant love stories and a parade of unforgettablecharacters mark this as a novel ready to conquer the world.

Literature & Fiction

Meek, James

Literary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Praised in over a dozen countries around the world, longlisted for the Man BookerPrize, named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and distinguished as a nationalbestseller, The People’s Act of Love has been compared to the works of such Russianmasters as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In a Siberian town caught between a zealouscult and bullying soldiers, a stranger named Samarin arrives. Claiming to bean escapee from an isolated prison camp, pursued in his flight by a bloodthirstycannibal, he unleashes a storm of suspicion and terror. The People’s Act of Loveis an epic drama of desire and sacrifice, full of hot blood and magnetic characters,played out against one of the most remote landscapes on earth.

Contemporary

From James Meek, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The People's Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and betrayal, falls from grace, acts of terror, and the wonderful, terrible inescapability of family.
Ritchie Shepherd, an aging pop star and a producer of a reality show for teen talent, is starting to trip over his own lies. Maybe filming a documentary about his father, Captain Shepherd, a British soldier executed by Northern Irish guerrillas, will redeem him.
His sister, Bec, is getting closer and closer to a vaccine for malaria. When she's not in Tanzania harvesting field samples, she's peering through a microscope at her own blood to chart the risky treatment she's testing on herself. She's as addicted to honesty as Ritchie is to trickery.
Val Oatman is the editor of a powerful tabloid newspaper. The self-appointed conscience of the nation, scourge of hypocrites and cheats, he believes he will marry beautiful Bec.
Alex Comrie, a gene therapist (and formerly the drummer in Ritchie's band), is battling his mortally ill uncle, a brilliant and domineering scientist, over whether Alex might actually have discovered a cure for aging. Alex, too, believes he will marry Bec.
Colum O'Donabháin has just been released from prison, having served a twenty-five-year sentence for putting a gun to Captain Shepherd's head when he refused to give up an informer. He now writes poetry.
Their stories meet and tangle in this bighearted epic that is also shrewd, starkly funny, and utterly of the moment. The Heart Broke In is fiction with the reverberating resonance of truth.

The Heart Broke In: A Novel

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A native Scot recounts his country's troubled history and its efforts to preserve its independence while remaining part of the United Kingdom, and describes the varied life of his countrymen today

The Land and People of Scotland (Portraits of the Nations)

Teen & Young Adult

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

The Land and People of Scotland (Portraits of the Nations Series)

Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge, and James Meek and introducing the striking new talents of Laura Hird and Paul Reekie. Children of Albion Rovers is a world of tripped-out crematorium attendants (Alan Warner), vengeful traffic-wardens (James Meek), born-again vinyl junkies (Gordon Legge), and teenage girls who sexually humiliate their teachers (Laura Hird). Also included are Paul Reekie's fictional account of ideals betrayed, and Irvine Welsh's first ever sci-fi story, featuring alien space casuals wreaking havoc through the known universe. The resulting mix is intoxicating to say the least.

Children of Albion Rovers (Rebel Inc. Classics)

WELSH, IRVINE

Legge, Gordon

Hird, Laura

Reekie, Paul

WARNER, Alan.

CANONGATE BOOKS *

The sequel to the well-received Children of Albion Rovers, this collection of six new novellas features half of the original team, diverse stories of passion, prison and presenters, and authors from as far afield as Moscow, New York, and Edinburgh.

Rovers return ("Rebel Inc")

Bourdain, Anthony

Martin, Emer

King, John.

Rebel inc.

Children of Albion Rovers: An Anthology of New Scottish Writing

Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people on the fringes--junkies, soccer hooligans, ravers, working-class youth. This anthology of six full-length novellas features raw and exciting works by Welsh and such up-and-coming authors as Alan Warner, James Meek, Gordon Legge, and Laura J. Hird.

Overlook Books

A RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY, LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON, FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE Ritchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies. Gallingly, his sister, Bec, a scientist developing a crucial vaccine, is as addicted to truth-telling as Ritchie is to falsehood. Ritchie relies on her certitude even as he seethes with resentment. A devastating chain of events is set into motion when Bec tells her fiancé, Val, a powerful tabloid editor, that she can't bring herself to marry him after all. Furious, he sets into motion an elaborate revenge plot intended to destroy Bec by exposing the people who are close to her.
A bighearted epic in the manner of Tolstoy, James Meek's The Heart Broke In is also as shrewd, starkly funny, and of-the-moment as Jonathan Franzen's Freedom or Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot. Most of all, it is a staggeringly good read, fiction with the reverberating resonance of truth.

Picador

Siberia 1919. In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed nearby is a regiment of Czech soldiers, desperate to get home but on the losing side in the recent conflict. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost gulag. Immediately apprehended, he is brought before the regiment's megalomaniac commander. But the stranger's arrival has also caught the attention of others, including Anna, a beautiful young war widow. And when the local shaman lies dead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town.

People's Act of Love

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Peoples Act Of Love

Peoples Act Of Love

The Heart Broke In: A Novel

The Land and People of Scotland (Portraits of the Nations)

The Land and People of Scotland (Portraits of the Nations Series)

Children of Albion Rovers (Rebel Inc. Classics)

Rovers return ("Rebel Inc")

Children of Albion Rovers: An Anthology of New Scottish Writing

The Heart Broke In: A Novel

People's Act of Love