Reif Larsen

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Mike Newell ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire") and starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, and Jeremy Irvine as Pip A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his great expectations. Published nine years before Dickens's death, it remains one of his most celebrated works.

T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog - Verywell - is going mad. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks.He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they award him a major scientific prize they don''t suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old.So begins T.S.''s life-changing adventure, travelling two thousand miles across America to reach the awards dinner, the secret-society membership and the TV interviews that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange?

T S Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they award him a major scientific prize they don''t suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old.

Reif LarsenT.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog Verywell is going mad. It's odd, but then families are. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks: maps of the countryside, maps of his family's behaviour, maps of animal and plant life. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they telephone with news that he has won a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a minute that he is twelve years old. So begins T.S.'s life-changing adventure, fleeing in the dead of night, riding freight trains two thousand miles across America how else do 12-year-olds get to Washington D.C.? to reach the awards dinner, the fame, the secret-society membership and the TV appearances that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange? The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. It is a journey through life's mysteries great and small, and about how on earth a boy with a telescope, four compasses and a theodolite should set about solving them.

When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping dinner table conversations normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T. S. from his family home just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum''s hallowed halls.There are some answers here on the road from Divide, and some new questions, too. How does one map the delicate lessons learned about family, or communicate the ebbs and flows of heartbreak, loneliness, and love?

In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists, he is soon forced to confront the true nature of his identity. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with events stretching from Belgrade in a time of siege to arctic Norway, from Cambodia in the years before the murderous Khmer Rouge regime to the modern-day Congo. It explores the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, puppetry and human experience. It's also about one man, one family and how far you may need to travel to know yourself. I Am Radar is a story greater than all of its remarkable parts, a breath-taking, highly addictive joyride through the worst humanity has to offer only to arrive at a place of wonder.

In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists, he is soon forced to confront the true natu

A kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society...In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists who stage performances in war zones around the world, he is soon forced to confront the true nature of his identity.Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with events stretching from Belgrade in a time of siege to arctic Norway, from Cambodia in the years before the murderous Khmer Rouge regime to the modern-day Congo.It explores the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history and human experience. Its also about one man, one family and how far you may need to travel to know yourself.I Am Radar is greater than all of its remarkable parts, a breathtaking, highly addictive joyride that finally arrives at a place of wonder.

T. S. Spivet es un genio de doce años que vive en un rancho en Montana. Su padre es un silencioso cowboy y su madre una científica obsesionada con una mítica especie de escarabajo; su hermano ya no esta, y su hermana parece normal, pero solo lo parece. T. S. intenta entender este caos dibujando mapas e ilustraciones de una exactitud impresionante. Su talento pronto tiene recompensa: una institucion cientifi ca le concede un prestigioso premio y, armado con una pequeña maleta, cruza el pais para recogerlo. Las obras escogidas de T. S. Spivet es una novela sobre los grandes y pequeños misterios de la vida, y sobre como un niño con un telescopio y cuatro compases puede resolverlos.

"Éste es un libro que consigue lo imposible: contiene Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon y Little Miss Sunshine". STEPHEN KINGT. S. Spivet es un genio de doce años que vive en un rancho en Montana. Su padre es un silencioso cowboy y su madre una cientifica obsesionada con una mitica especie de escarabajo; su hermano ya no esta, y su hermana parece normal, pero solo lo parece. T. S. intenta entender este caos dibujando mapas e ilustraciones de una exactitud impresionante. Su talento pronto tiene recompensa: una institucion cientifi ca le concede un prestigioso premio y, armado con una pequeña maleta, cruza el pais para recogerlo. Las obras escogidas de T. S. Spivet es una novela sobre los grandes y pequeños misterios de la vida, y sobre como un niño con un telescopio y cuatro compases puede resolverlos.