John Boyne

'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft .

Irland 1945. Den gravida Catherine Goggin slängs handgripligen ut från mässan, förskjuts av familjen och får på egen hand ta bussen till Dublin och söka sig sin försörjning. Catherine är 16 år, stark och oförvägen, hon tänker inte låta sig kuvas. Sonen Cyril föds och Hjärtats osynliga raseri är hans egen berättelse. Uppväxten med de kylslagna men inte ovänliga adoptivföräldrarna: den ikoniska författaren Maude Avery och den förmögne bankmannen Charles, internatskolan, passionerna, flykten från äktenskapet (vid bröllopsmottagningen), 1980-talets New York, Amsterdam och i bakgrunden Irland och Dublin, den hotfulla, förtryckande staden.” Du är ju inte en riktig Avery”, konstaterar Maude och Charles, men vem är han och var kommer han ifrån? Hjärtats osynliga raseri är en irländsk utvecklingsroman – fängslande, gripande och samtidigt stillsamt humoristisk – som följer Cyril Avery från vaggan till graven (nästan) och Irlands utveckling från 1945 och framåt. En roman med läsös, svärta och originalitet som dessutom får läsaren att känna sig smart och glad och berörd.

"A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne's own."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn't have is talent--but he's not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don't need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful - but desperately lonely - older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice's first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky "Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it."--NPR "Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?"--Vanity Fair

Pojken i randig pyjamas börjar i Berlin 1942. Den nioårige Bruno kommer hem en dag och upptäcker att alla hans saker håller på att packas i lådor. Hans pappa har blivit befordrad och hela familjen måste fl ytta till ett annat hus långt, långt, borta där det inte finns någon att leka med och inget att göra. Ett staket sträcker sig så långt ögat kan nå och på långt håll kan han se de märkliga människorna som staketet skiljer honom från. Bruno, som drömmer om att bli upptäckare, bestämmer sig för att ta reda på mer om sin omgivning. På sin vandring träffar han en pojke vars liv och situation är helt olika hans egna och deras växande vänskap får förödande följder. John Boyne föddes på Irland 1971 och studerade vid Trinity College i Dublin och University of East Anglia i Norwich. Pojken i randig pyjamas är hans första bok för unga läsare men han har skrivit fl era böcker för vuxna. De senaste åren har han också skrivit noveller för barn och fl era av dem har fi lmatiserats för TV eller dramatiserats för radio. Pojken i randig pyjamas har publicerats på många språk och i utgåvor både för barn och för vuxna och den nominerades för Ottakars Childrens Book Prize 2006. John Boyne bor i Dublin och skriver nu på sin sjätte roman.

Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable story from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This special edition features a foreword from Eoin Colfer. The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. And Alfie becomes determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

Hva skjer med et foreldreløst barn som blir tatt inn under Adolf Hitlers vinger? Da Pierrot blir foreldreløs, må han flytte fra hjemmet sitt i Paris og begynne et nytt liv hos tanten Beatrix, som er hushjelp i en rik husholdning høyt oppe i de tyske fjellene. Det er ikke vanlige tider. Året er 1935, og andre verdenskrig nærmer seg med stormskritt. Og det er ingen vanlig husholdning heller, for stedet er Berghof, Adolf Hitlers landsted. Snart blir Pierrot tatt under Hitlers vinger, og kastes ut i en ny verden som stadig blir farligere: en verden preget av frykt, hemmeligheter og forræderi, en verden han kanskje aldri vil klare å unnslippe. Sterk roman fra forfatteren av bestselgeren Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen. En bok som er vanskelig å legge fra seg, og umulig å glemme. «For å forstå akkurat hvor bra denne boken er, må du lese den selv. (...) Gutten på toppen av fjellet er rett og slett en klassiker.» HILDE MATRE LARSEN, MAGASINET BOK

Hjertets usynlige stormer er en roman om én manns kamp for å finne sin plass i livet, om et Irland i rivende forandring fra et samfunn der den katolske kirken bestemmer nær sagt alt, til et moderne europeisk land. Cyril Avery er ikke en ekte Avery, det er i hvert fall hva adoptivforeldrene hans sier. Men hvis han ikke er en ekte Avery, hvem er han da? Cyrils mor blir gravid utenfor ekteskap som 16-åring og bortvist fra landsbyen sin, en katolsk liten flekk på den irske vestkysten. Hun slår seg ned i Dublin og adopterer barnet bort til et velhavende, lettere eksentrisk ektepar: Den kjederøykende forfatteren Maude, som ikke vil bli for populær, og bankmannen Charles. Men Cyril føler seg ikke som noen Avery, og han føler seg overhodet ikke hjemme i etterkrigstidens katolske Irland. Det er først da han møter den karismatiske skjørtejegeren Julian Woodbead at han tør ta de første skrittene i jakten på hvem han er – en søken som fører ham til Amsterdam og New York i et forsøk på å finne lykken og kjærligheten. John Boyne forførte en hel verden med ungdomsromanen Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen. Nå er han tilbake med Hjertets usynlige stormer, en rørende og viltvoksende historie som strekker seg gjennom mer enn 70 år.

Berlin, 1942: Da Bruno en dag kommer hjem fra skole, opdager han, at hans ting er ved at blive pakket ned. Hans far er blevet forfremmet, og familien må flytte til et nyt hus langt, langt væk, hvor der hverken er nogen at lege med eller noget at lave. Et højt hegn strækker sig så langt øjet rækker, og afskærmer ham inde fra de underlige mennesker i horisonten. Men Bruno møder alligevel en anden dreng, som lever et helt anderledes liv, og deres møde bliver til et venskab, der har frygtelige konsekvenser. Denne internationale bestseller har rørt millioner af læsere verden over, og er nu tilgængelig i en smuk luksusudgave med illustrationer af den anerkendte Oliver Jeffers. .

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017Selected one of New York Times Readers' Favorite Books of 2017Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a RabbitForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen.

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Pierrot is quickly taken under Hitler's wing and thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal from which he may never be able to escape.

Bruno doesn't like his new house. He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin, and there are no children to play with here - until Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the wire fence near Bruno's house, and who wears a strange uniform of striped pyjamas.

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains.

Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good." Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church. He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and grows nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store looking for the boy's mother. But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church, and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family. A novel as intimate as it is universal, A History of Loneliness is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality.

Leaving behind their home in Berlin, nine-year-old Bruno and his family move to a new house in a desolate area far from his friends. Bruno soon discovers that a mysterious fence runs alongside the new house, separating his family from the strange people in the striped pyjamas on the other side. A chance encounter with a young boy beyond the fence sparks an unlikely friendship that finally reveals the true horror of their situation. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas features a detailed scheme of work including a range of inspiring activities and drama techniques, written by title consultants and leading Drama in English experts Paul Bunyan and Ruth Moore.

Hva skjer med et foreldreløst barn som blir tatt inn under Adolf Hitlers vinger? Da Pierrot blir foreldreløs, må han flytte fra hjemmet sitt i Paris og begynne et nytt liv hos tanten Beatrix, som er hushjelp i en rik husholdning høyt oppe i de tyske fjellene. Det er ikke vanlige tider. Året er 1935, og andre verdenskrig nærmer seg med stormskritt. Og det er ingen vanlig husholdning heller, for stedet er Berghof, Adolf Hitlers landsted. Snart blir Pierrot tatt under Hitlers vinger, og kastes ut i en ny verden som stadig blir farligere: en verden preget av frykt, hemmeligheter og forræderi, en verden han kanskje aldri vil klare å unnslippe. Sterk roman fra forfatteren av bestselgeren Gutten i den stripete pyjamasen. En bok som er vanskelig å legge fra seg, og umulig å glemme.

There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way. . Betrayed and frightened, Barnaby floats into the path of a very special hot air balloon â?? and so begins a magical journey around the world, with a cast of extraordinary new friends.

Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. Their birthdays are on the same day. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas... Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys. Angus Jackson's deeply affecting adaptation was produced by The Children's Touring Partnership and Chichester Festival Theatre on a UK tour in 2015.