Andrew O'Hagan

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, INDEPENDENT, SCOTSMAN AND THE NEW YORKERExtraordinary.MARINA HYDEPitch-perfect.OBSERVERAn utter joy to read.MONICA ALIMajestic.INDEPENDENTA masterpiece.JOHN LANCHESTERAddictively enjoyable.GUARDIANSensational.IRISH INDEPENDENTA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONHe always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers and fine artists, at ease with the highbrow and the mainstream.Only now, the world is changing. Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves.Andrew OHagans novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024

La novela definitiva sobre la Gran Bretaña postbrexit. Londres, mayo de 2021. Campbell Flynn es un profesor universitario de mediana edad casado y con dos hijos que ha dejado atrás sus orígenes humil

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION He always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public. Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers and fine artists, at ease with the highbrow and the mainstream. Only now, the world is changing. Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves.

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne''s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art, witnessing the rise of America''s new liberalism, civil rights, the space race, the New York critics, and was Marilyn Monroe''s constant companion. The story of Maf the dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the life of a complex canine hero - he was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn''s other person affects. Through the eyes of Maf we''re provided with an insight into the life of Monroe herself, and a fascinating take on one of the most extraordinary periods of the twentieth century

A stunning novel. Graham Norton ** Includes the first chapter of Andrew OHagans Sunday Times bestselling new novel Caledonian Road **Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize Shortlisted for the Portico PrizeA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the YearFunny, passionate, heartbreaking. Tracey ThornLife-enhancing.ScotsmanUnforgettable. Colm ToibinSpectacular. Books of the Year, SpectatorAn incredible book . . . about men and how important friendship can be to men. Douglas StuartMy god this is gorgeous. Wild, wise, wonderful . . . Absolutely brilliant. Russell T DaviesEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.

Cuando el padre David Aderton se instala en una pequeña localidad escocesa, no todos los lugareños lo reciben de buen grado. Y aunque logra entablar amistad con dos jóvenes, el destino lo aboca a ser el centro de todas las miradas al convertirse en sospechoso de abusos a una menor. Desde su angustiosa situacion, David retrocedera hasta su infancia en Lancanshire, la muerte de su padre, los años de Oxford y la decision trascendental que tomo en Roma. Andrew OHagan es un autor reconocido por su calidad literaria, en la linea de nuestros escritores mas solidos como Cormac McCarthy o Peter Carey.

¿Qué pasa en nuestras vidas si dejamos de ser visibles? ¿Qué pasa si dejamos de estar documentados? Andrew O´Hagan busca en «Los desaparecidos» una respuesta y un significado a estos interrogantes. A

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne''s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' Carol Ann Duffy ***'A life-enhancing novel. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again.' Alan Massie, Scotsman'A joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship.' John Self, The TimesA heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong

When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep..."Be Near Me" is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change and the way we live now.

Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity

Maria Tambini es una guapa jovencita hija de inmigrantes italianos, vive en Escocia, tiene una hermosa voz, sueña con triunfar y encarna la única esperanza de prosperidad para su familia. Pero cuando el sueño se cumpla, Maria ira enredandose sin remision en la maraña de la celebridad, victima de si misma y de las mentiras de sus allegados. ¿Podra salir del pozo en el que se esta precipitando por intercesion del amor?Novela de corte convencional que atrapa por la fuerza de la voz y la sensibilidad de una historia entre madre e hija. Autor muy aplaudido por la critica internacional y de trayectoria literaria reconocida.

From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road a heart enriching celebration of what makes us great our friends If we are lucky in our lives our friendships will be rich and varied They will be shared with those with two legs with four legs with whiskers or clean faces they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life some will span decades and some will be only fleeting But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable but unimagined without them In these gorgeous personal reflections Andrew O Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry memory and history illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together and how our lives are all the better because we do

¿Qué hemos hecho con el sueño de un mundo mejor que tuvieron nuestros padres y abuelos? Un nieto que derriba antiguas barriadas obreras. Un padre que lucha contra el alcohol. Un abuelo que dedicó su vida a la construccion de viviendas sociales. Tres generaciones enfrentadas a un destino.