A New York Times Editor’s Pick. Shortlisted for the Bookmark Festival Book of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize "I wasn’t sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is." Ian Rankin My name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can’t tell you about. It’s five years after the pandemic, and for most people life has returned to normal—but not for Haley Cooper Crowe and her brother Ben. Children of divorce, they live with their mother, but their dad believes there’s a new, much deadlier virus spreading out of control, and that he can only save his kids by kidnapping them and hiding them in his remote prepper hideaway. Once confined to their off-grid “safe house”, Haley and Ben are completely cut off from civilisation. Will they make it out alive? How can they save their mother? How can they discover what’s happening on the outside? Propulsive, electrifying, tense, and often visceral and funny, How to Survive Everything is one teenage girl’s guide to navigating the imminent collapse of her world, family and sanity.

Nina X has no mother and no father; she has Comrade Chen, and Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project; she is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything in her journal, to track her thoughts. To keep her ideology pure, her words are erased, over and over again. But that was before. Now Nina is in Freedom, and all the rules have changed. She has to remember that everything is opposite to what she was told, and yet Freedom seems to be a very confusing and dangerous place.

'Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out' Christopher Tsiolkas, author of The Slap In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she is convinced that she'll hurt her daughter unless she unpicks the mystery of her past, buried deep within a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. And there, with a looming cult leader, among the rites and rituals, the sacraments and ceremonies, is a single postcard dated a week after her mother's death. As she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.

A year after Emma Henson, a young, genius bio-tech scientist, dies in a covert AI brain-chip experiment, her father Josh has nothing left to live for and vows to get revenge on the Silicon Valley CEO responsible. Josh has thirty days to make his home-made bombs and to say goodbye to his life. To give himself courage in the countdown, he records daily video messages to his lost "Em." He is fueled by the horrific memories of Em’s death—her body and brain devoured by the AI "infinity" system in its quest for immortality. Memories flood him as he searches for the moments in Emma’s short life where he could have been a better father and saved her. As he grapples with constructing and testing his DIY bombs, his thirty days start to run out, and Emma’s voice returns to him, speaking with him as he sets to complete his mission. He worries that he’s gone insane—he doubts if he can see the violent act through—but Emma’s voice insists he continue on his path toward murder and mayhem. Josh tries to resist his daughter’s voice as it attempts to take full control of his body. But is it even her? Or is it a ghost, a psychotic delusion or the AI system that is controlling him? Inspired by the real-life Brain Chip Implant experiments (Musk/Neuralink) and the technogothic tradition (Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Island of Dr Moreau), For Emma is a tale of possession by a new force unleashed by science. It is a warning for the future but also an intimate, heart-breaking study of the love between a father and daughter and of the madness that grief can drive us to.

Nina X ist die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen jungen Frau, die von Geburt an in einer maoistischen Kult-Kommune in "ideologischer Reinheit" erzogen wird und dann in unsere moderne Welt flieht. Über 20 Jahre lang hat Nina X keine Bücher, keine Spielsachen und keine Privatsphäre. Ihre engste emotionale Beziehung unterhält sie zu den Vögeln vor ihrem Zimmerfenster, wenn sie mutig genug ist, die Gipsplatte zu entfernen, die es verdeckt. Nina hat das kleine Haus in London noch nie verlassen. Sie hat nie ein anderes Kind getroffen. Sie hat keine Mutter und keinen Vater; sondern einen Führer und vier Genossinnen. Der allmächtige Führer nennt sie Das Projekt; sie wird von den "falschen Göttern des Kapitalismus" und vom "Kult um das Ich und das Selbst" ferngehalten. Der Führer verlangt von ihr, alles in Notizbüchern festzuhalten, um ihre Gedanken verfolgen zu können; zwingt sie, die Einträge so lange zu überarbeiten und umzuschreiben, bis sie seiner Vorstellung entsprechen. Ihre eigenen Worte werden ausgelöscht, wieder und wieder ...Doch das war damals. Jetzt ist Nina in Freiheit, und alle Regeln haben sich verändert. Sie muss sich immer wieder sagen, dass jetzt alles das Gegenteil von dem ist, was sie gelernt hat – und trotzdem ergibt die Welt immer noch keinen Sinn. Ein geheimnisvoller Roman mit einer exzentrischen, unzuverlässigen Protagonistin, die unsere Welt in einem ganz anderen Licht sieht.

"Is the menage a trois a way to live, or just a dream, impossible in reality?" "In 1993, Dot, Saul and Owen lived together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene, shoplifting, dole scrounging, doing drugs and swapping clothes and beds. Their year as a menage, however, led to a suicide attempt, to art stardom, and to one of the three vanishing from the world." "Fifteen years later there is a big retrospective of Dot's art and they are each drawn back into each other's lives. But can they relive the past, or will they rekindle the passions that nearly destroyed them?" "Menage is a Jules et Jim for the jilted generation. A tale of heroin chic, fake moustaches, shoplifted sherry, pickled animals, and a love so insane that it could only be a work of art." --Book Jacket.

From the moment she first meets him Alice is aware that David is impotent. 'I'm impotent', he says, 'in so many ways'. He's separated from his wife and daughter, an HR executive worried for his job at a Glaswegian TV company. She's American, wants to be an artist. They move in together.

Emma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. Her voice then haunts her father, helping him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her. "A masterpiece ... the eminent fiction writer of our times." — Irvine Welsh Multi-award-winning author Ewan Morrison's ninth book is a gripping, high-stakes, high concept thriller, which fuses futurism with a powerful emotional core. Emma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. Her voice then haunts her father, helping him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her. For Emma is a ghost-in-the machine tale of bereavement and of a unique and conflicted love between a daughter and her father. "Absolutely wonderful... riveting, sad, mad and terrifying." — Terry Gilliam "For Emma is as disturbing as it is convincing, a tale of love and guilt and grief, and an apt tract for our chaotic times." — John Banville "This book scared me like no horror story ever has, because its monster is right in front of us, right now, eating us slowly while we cheer." — Isaac Marion, author Warm Bodies "Harrowing, tragic and moving." — Ian Rankin "A beautiful, intense, challenging, scary and very, very timely book." — J.T Leroy / Laura Albert "Heartbreaking and harrowing, this is a suspenseful journey into a family's tortured past and its nightmarish present. Ewan Morrison's attention to the details of parental love and responsibility make this an unforgettable book." — Atom Egoyan, director, The Sweet Hereafter "For Emma is a brilliant book that you will devour. Its compelling exploration of love, loss, and the haunting power of technology and morality makes it a must-read, delving into the highly relevant and intriguing intersection of humanity and advanced AI." — Bruna Papandrea, producer of Gone Girl, Big Little Lies "Ewan Morrison's harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. In that way, a worthy successor to Easy Travel to Other Planets, Neuromancer, and, of course, Brave New World." — David Shields, author Reality Hunger "Hold onto your seats for a cracking good ending, which I did not see coming, yet which I felt I should have seen coming – the best kind." — Lionel Shriver

This is a collection of short stories that straddle several postmodern urban worlds, including those of New York and Glasgow. Although each can be read as a discrete tale, they are subtly linked through their themes.

»Mein Name ist Haley Cooper Crowe und ich bin im Lockdown an einem abgelegenen Ort, über den ich nichts sagen kann.« Es sind fünf Jahre seit der Pandemie vergangen, und für die meisten Menschen ist das Leben zur Normalität zurückgekehrt – aber nicht für die 15-jährige Haley Cooper Crowe und ihren Bruder Ben. Als Kinder geschiedener Eltern leben sie bei ihrer Mutter, aber ihr Vater glaubt, dass ein neues, viel tödlicheres Virus außer Kontrolle gerät, und dass er seine Kinder nur retten kann, indem er sie entführt und in seinem abgelegenen Prepper-Versteck verbirgt. Einmal in ihrem Off-Grid-Sicherheitshaus in den schottischen Bergen eingesperrt, sind Haley und Ben vollständig von der Zivilisation abgeschnitten. Werden sie lebend herauskommen? Wie können sie ihre Mutter retten? Wie können sie herausfinden, was draußen passiert? Treibend, elektrisierend und spannungsgeladen ist Überleben ist alles der Leitfaden eines Teenager-Mädchens, um den unmittelbaren Zusammenbruch ihrer Welt, ihrer Familie und ihres Verstandes zu verhindern.