This is a deceptive read as the writing flows effortlessly, but you need to keep track of characters and their relationships or you'll end up a little confused at the end. It seems like a simple storyline until it's not :)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads
“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times
Clown Town is part of the Slough House series by Mick Herron that has been produced by Apple TV as SLOW HORSES (with Gary Oldman). The writing is captivating, but Mick does something NO other author does, or should do—he hops between characters MID-PARAGRAPH. As a writer, I'm aghast by this. There were a few times when I had to re-read to realize what had happen. For all his astonishing success, he needs a damn good editor :) But the tie-in with SLOW HORSES is so good you can picture the characters and they feel real.
THE NINTH BOOK IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+
Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC).
“Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns.” Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if they've fallen…
README.TXT is a non-fiction book, an autobiography of Chelsea Manning, who leaked footage of the US military openly and brazenly killing journalists. It's a tough read but an important part of our recent history, and it demythologizes the infallibility of the military. Whistleblowers should be protected, not persecuted. Changes should be made, not cover-ups.
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.
While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011, she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013, she was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison.
The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as…
Alex's world should be simple. High school, homework, friends, exams — the ordinary rhythms of teenage life, but life is anything but simple forty trillion kilometers from Earth!
When his girlfriend, Lux, slips out of high school and onto the surface of their asteroid, she stumbles across two bodies in charred spacesuits. Everything that seems normal is suddenly being called into question. Who were they? Why were they abandoned, left to mummify in the vacuum rather than being brought home and mourned? Was it a terrible accident — or something far worse?
Alex isn't sure who they can trust. The more he looks for answers, the more certain he becomes that someone doesn't want any questions being asked. Two forgotten bodies. One terrifying truth. And a chain of events that will change the course of human history.
