Rupert Thomson: 9 books

In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power. Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to buy cigarettes for...

“Katherine Carlyle is a masterpiece.”  —Philip Pullman, best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy ** ** “[T]his road trip through a snow dome of mesmeric hallucinations is Thomson at his best.” —Richard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, winner of the...

   Former bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past in his native Plymouth for an uncertain new existence as a barber in London's colorful East End. Waif-like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress at a fashionable Soho restaurant, a devoted daughter to her...

A sorcerer in wax. A fugitive. Haunted by a past he cannot escape. Threatened by a future he cannot imagine.   Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally...

The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women...

One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent...

After decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, a murderer has finally died of natural causes, no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, has been assigned the task of guarding her body in the hospital morgue. But alone on a graveyard...

Eind jaren tachtig, wetenschappelijk onderzoek maakt grote ontwikkelingen door. Katherine Carlyle ontstaat via ivf. Na een bevriezing van negen jaar komt ze via natuurlijke geboorte ter wereld. Ze groeit op in een liefdevol gezin, maar toch lijkt een herinnering aan haar ontstaan haar te achtervolgen....

n het barokke Florence van het jaar 1691 krijgt beeldhouwer Gaetano Zummo van een van de laatst heersende Medici een bijzondere opdracht: hij moet een wassen beeld creëren van de perfecte naakte vrouw. Florence is in deze tijd een duistere stad - vol geheimen en verzwijgingen - waar alles verboden...