Glen Duncan

La fine del mondo è vicina e il Vecchio Creatore offre a Lucifero, Principe delle Tenebre, un'ultima possibilità di redimersi. Per risalire tra le schiere degli angeli dovrà insediarsi nel corpo di Declan Gunn, scrittore fallito sull'orlo del suicidio, e vivere un mese tra gli uomini senza peccare. A Lucifero - diavolo affascinante, ironico, spietato, a volte terribilmente umano . non interessa la redenzione: il suo viaggio sulla terra sarà un'immersione nel godimento dei sensi, nel piacere e nella trasgressione del sesso, nello stordimento dell'alcol e delle droghe. E ora che possiede la voce per parlare agli uomini può finalmente raccontare la sua versione della Storia: la ribellione, la caduta, il peccato originale, i successi ottenuti come regista occulto dei flagelli che hanno afflitto l'umanità, la fatalità della sua "dolorosa" scelta. Ma il viaggio è quasi al termine, il corpo che lo ospita è logorato dagli eccessi, la decisione finale imminente...

In a windowless cell, a man hangs from a pair of handcuffs. He is an American. His torturer will stop at nothing to extract the information he requires. He, too, is an American. A Day and a Night and a Day is a Grand Inquisition for the twenty-first century, in which love, loyalty, reason, and truth are on trial, and morality hangs in the balance. It is the story of Augustus Rose, an unlikely operative in a terrorist network, and his interrogator, Harper, a ruthless ambassador for the darkest forces at work in our times. Beyond the law and without hope of escape or reprieve, Augustus endures an emotional and physical assault that brings his whole life under brutal scrutiny: his race, religion, politics, and past, the people he has loved, and the few he is still desperate to protect. Alone and certain of death, Augustus raises the only shield he has: memory. He remembers his outcast Euro-American mother, Juliet, whose erratic love was refuge from the unforgiving streets of Harlem in the 1950s; he recalls the strange solace of Elise Merkete, the ravaged vigilante who recruited him into the ranks of her underground army; he relives the cool touch of the young Spanish prostitute, In�s, perhaps the last female tenderness he's ever likely to know. Outshining them all is the memory of Selina, a stunning, troubled, and rebellious white New York aristocrat. Their epic, taboo love affair, begun in 1960s Manhattan, would yield a lifetime's worth of passion, heartbreak, and wanderlust, leading Augustus from Harlem to Greenwich Village, from El Salvador to Barcelona, from Morocco to a bleak British island where death seems his only companion. Dramatic, far-reaching, and beautifully written, A Day and a Night and a Day is both a piercing love story and a timely, harrowing evaluation of the shape the Western world is taking.

From the author of the best sellers The Last Werewolf and Talulla Rising, the hair-raising conclusion to the saga that has galvanized readers' imaginations: an electrifying, startlingly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival between werewolves and vampires, and one last incisive--brilliantly ironic--look at what it means to be, or to not be, human. Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium: with her twins at her side and the devotion of her lover Walker, it's a normal family life--except for their monthly transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this tenuous peace is interrupted for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi, the 20,000-year-old vampire who haunts her dreams. In turn Remshi can't escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from years before (many, many, many years). They have their distractions: Talulla is being pursued by a fanatical Christian cult, and Remshi is following the trail of reckless feedings by a newly turned vampire. But, as the novel unfurls, they are inextricably drawn to each other--and toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally come to pass--in this tale of pulse-pounding supernatural suspense.

I Lucifer established Glen Duncan as a writer “up there in the literary stratosphere with Martin Amis or T. C. Boyle” (Washington Post). Now with Death of an Ordinary Man, Duncan continues his penetrating and innovative exploration of the supernatural with a novel that is far and away his most powerful and accomplished yet.Nathan Clark’s gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won’t be until he finds out why he died. How has he come to hover over his own funeral, a spectral spectator to the grief of his family and friends? Privy now to their innermost thoughts and feelings— confessions that are raw, brutal, and unexpected— Nathan spends the day of his wake getting to know the living as he has never known them before: His father struggles with a legacy of family tragedy; his wife and best friend with the baggage of a doomed affair; his older

An educated young man's obsession with pornography causes the collapse of his relationship with the one woman he has ever loved, in a funny, poignant confessional novel that explores friendship, sexual illicitness, and moral malaise. A first novel. Reprint.

The Prince of Darkness has been given one last shot at redemption, provided he can live out a reasonably blameless life on earth. Highly sceptical, naturally, the Old Dealmaker negotiates a trial period - a summer holiday in a human body, with all the delights of the flesh. The body, however, turns out to be that of Declan Gunn, a depressed writer living in Clerkenwell, interrupted in his bath mid-suicide. Ever the opportunist, and with his main scheme bubbling in the background, Luce takes the chance to tap out a few thoughts - to straighten the biblical record, to celebrate his favourite achievements, to let us know just what it's like being him. Neither living nor explaining turns out to be as easy as it looks. Beset by distractions, miscalculations and all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to, the Father of Lies slowly begins to learn what it's like being us.

Tra le nevi dell'Alaska, Talulla Demetriou aspetta come ogni mese la Trasformazione. Lupo mannaro, incinta, in un mondo dominato dai vampiri. Al sorgere della luna piena accade tutto in un il dolore, il parto, un vetro che si infrange. I suoi nemici storici sono arrivati per sottrarle l'unica cosa che ancora la tiene aggrappata alla vita. Inizia così un inseguimento planetario tra l'Inghilterra, l'Italia e Creta, che porterà Talulla al cospetto del più antico vampiro vivente. Una corsa contro il tempo, insieme a un branco di inattesi alleati, per compiere la sua missione. Con la stessa prosa splendente dell' Ultimo lupo mannaro , Glen Duncan ci regala un nuovo capitolo della sua trilogia, ricco di humour nero e colpi di scena. Un potente meccanismo narrativo in cui si fondono horror e azione, scenari stupendi, e una protagonista mostruosamente sexy e indimenticabile.

Falling in love with someone allows for two possible narratives of your in one your love is returned; in the other it is betrayed. That is all. Nicholas and Chloe knew you couldn't create one possibility without the other.

Jacob Marlowe ha appena scoperto di essere l’ultimo della sua specie. È braccato dai suoi nemici e tormentato da un tragico passato. Logorato da due secoli di lussuria e di assassinii, a cui è spinto ogni mese dalla Maledizione che lo ha colpito, ha deciso di consegnarsi alle autorità alla prossima luna piena. Gli ultimi trenta giorni prima che tutto finisca. Ma proprio mentre Jacob sta contando le ore che lo separano dalla propria fine, un brutale omicidio e un incontro tanto incredibile quanto inaspettato lo catapultano di nuovo all’inseguimento disperato della vita. L’ultimo lupo mannaro è qualcosa di unico e totalmente nuovo, un romanzo in cui azione, dolore, poesia, amore, sesso, humour, sangue e morte si tengono per mano in un miracoloso equilibrio.

When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade pops. The woman is a werewolf.   The woman is Talulla Demetriou. She’s grieving for her werewolf lover, Jake, whose violent death has left her alone with her own sublime monstrousness. On the run, pursued by the hunters of WOCOP (World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena), she must find a place to give birth to Jake’s child in secret.             The birth, under a full moon at a remote Alaska lodge, leaves Talulla ravaged, but with her infant son in her arms she believes the worst is over—until the windows crash in, and she discovers that the worst has only just begun . . .             What follows throws Talulla into a race against time to save both herself and her child as she faces down the new, psychotic leader of WOCOP, a cabal of blood-drinking religious fanatics, and (rumor has it) the oldest living vampire. Harnessing the same audacious imagination and dark humor, the same depths of horror and sympathy, the same full-tilt narrative energy with which he crafted his acclaimed novel The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan now gives us a heroine like no other, the definitive twenty-first-century female of the species. 

Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a sexually predatory household. Both are Anglo-Indians, members of a race that helped turn the wheels of Empire for years. But Empire days are numbered, and as India sheds its colonial skin, the young lovers must face their own tryst with destiny. In twenty-first-century England, Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own: lost love, relentless libido, dreams of death, and a world full of headlines he can't understand and doesn't want to. But keeping past and present apart isn't as easy as it seems, and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell.... Epic in its scope yet never losing sight of the telling, gorgeous detail, The Bloodstone Papers is an extraordinarily rich and beautiful read that manages to ask the big questions without fuss and to accept that the big answers aren't always what we want to hear.

Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human. Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he's still getting probably contribute to that, as does his diet: unusual amounts of flesh and blood (at least some from friends and relatives). Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has now become the only one of his kind. This depresses Jake to the point that he's been contemplating suicide. Yet there are powerful forces who for very different reasons want - and have the power - to keep Jake alive. Here is a powerful new version of the werewolf legend - mesmerizing and undeniably sexy, and with moments of violence so elegantly wrought they dazzle rather than repel. But perhaps its most remarkable achievement is to make the reader feel sympathy for a man who can only be described as a monster - and in doing so, remind us what it means to be human. One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.

This is the confession of Dominic Francis Hood - Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle. Dominic's childhood had the usual cardinal the love of his family, a vague belief in God, a general curiosity, an emerging libido. But after he witnesses a miracle performed by Father Ignatius Malone, Dominic realises some part of him is skewed. Instead of becoming attracted to good, Dominic finds himself stimulated by the idea of other people's pain. And he knows that the mere fantasy will never be enough. WEATHERCOCK is the great modern moral inquiry, by one of England's brightest and most confronting young novelists. By turns hilarious, appalling, celebratory and sad, it is an investigation of profound temptations and those human weapons - sometimes formidable, sometimes frail - we bring to bear against them.

Presentamos al fin en español la divertida y exitosa novela de Glen Duncan, aclamada por público y crítica en el mercado anglosajón, y cuya versión cinematográfica se encuentra actualmente en fase de producción. El argumento es el el fin de todas las cosas se acerca y al Príncipe de las Tinieblas se le ha concedido una última oportunidad de redención, siempre que sea capaz de vivir una vida razonablemente intachable en la Tierra. Como prueba, Lucifer negocia encarnarse en un cuerpo usado, el de un escritor, durante un mes ?todo un mes para disfrutar de los placeres de la carne?. Pero la experiencia de habitar entre nosotros le provoca más trastornos y complicaciones de lo en lugar de enseñar a los humanos lo que significa ser el Demonio, Lucifer se sorprende a sí mismo tratando de entender en qué consiste ser un hombre. En palabras de Stella «Lucifer es encantador y sexy y muy, muy divertido. Glen Duncan sabe demasiado y lo cuenta demasiado bien. Temo por su alma».