Scout, a small robotic vacuum cleaner, will steal your heart in this tale of sentient appliances who band together to save their part of the world. Set slightly into the future, this fable of a tale is an immersive and fast read, and will stay with you long past the last page. An Animal Farm for our time.
In a near future, where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a young Roomba vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising technological power in this compelling, original novel.
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold’s stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
But when Edie passes away, Scout and her fellow sentient appliances…
This tells the story of Malta, using WWII as the main plot, and the central sermons of the little priest of the catacombs as historical scope. It's a massive undertaking and yet Monserrat handles the material deftly and leaves the reader with a great deal of history.
'One of the most memorable characters of post-war fiction' Daily Express
A classic novel set in the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel Sea
Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a Kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust.
Now amid the catacombs discovered by a chance bomb, he cared for the flood of homeless, starving, frightened people who sought shelter from the death that fell unceasingly from the sky.
His story, and the story of Malta, is told in superbly graphic pictures…
The characters of the brother and sister in this book are oppositional and yet very similar in their self-absorption, making it a universal theme rather than just a historic dip into the rich texture of Newfoundland.
An enthralling novel about the corruption of power and the power of corruption from one of our greatest writers, the award-winning, bestselling author of THE INNOCENTS (Extraordinary”—Wall Street Journal)
"A FLAWLESSLY CRAFTED NARRATIVE" —Wall Street Journal
"ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" —Booklist (Starred Review)
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos.
In the third instalment of this series, Imogene is in Florence to immerse herself in the Dorothy L. Sayers translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Between following Dante's path through hell, purgatory and heaven in his hometown, and noting the imprint of the murderous Medicis, it's almost too much to stumble across some bodies of her own.
