A mind-blowing adventure into a literary fourth dimension: part noir, part London snapshot, all unsettlingly amazing Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

In this "elegant and darkly human" ("Newsday") first novel, Grace Quinn is an English woman living in rural Ireland with her abusive husband and her son Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refuses to accept. "Excruciatingly suspenseful".--"New York Times Book Review".

Finally, after worrisomely saying he'd given up writing, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They're on the fringes of London, clinging on--to sanity or solvency or a story--by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. It's a deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog and witchy sleights of hand in a manner reminiscent of Muriel Spark, and delivering a knock-out punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway's most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell--he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far off and scot free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don't know what time it is...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 ‘Remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn 'Like Finnegans Wake, only readable' - The Times In A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the fringes of London life, often clinging on – to sanity, solvency or a story – by their fingertips. With this deftly conjured high-wire act, Ridgway achieves a fine balance between drama and fidelity to his characters. The result is pin-sharp and breathtaking. Book of the Year Selection in the Guardian, New York Times, Spectator, Hot Press and The White Review Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize

'Kafka himself would love it' The i 'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour 'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail 'Glorious' Harper's Bazaar A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka What happens when Kafka's idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection of stories, commissioned to commemorate one hundred years since his death, ten of our most celebrated international writers take ideas of Kafka's - motifs from his stories, titles of his famous works, or unfinished fragments left behind in his Blue Octavo Notebooks - and run with them to make something new.

Set in present-day Dublin, The Parts interweaves six lives and six narratives. In her mansion in the mountains, millionaire widow Delly Roche is getting ready for death. Keeping her company are her companion of many years, Kitty Flood, and the discreetly insane Dr. George Addison-Blake. So why is Delly so keen to die? What exactly is in the letter discovered by Kitty? What is Dr. George doing in the shed by the tennis courts? And does any of it have anything to do with the conspiracy theories being hinted at on Joe Kavanaugh's radio show? Down in the city, Barry, Joe's producer, is getting caught up in something and he's not quite sure why. And all the time, conducting business down by the river, doing his best to keep out of this, is Kez. Something is about to occur.

Marvelous stories by the Irish writer acclaimed by Zadie Smith as “idiosyncratic and fascinating” Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as “flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose.” Ridgway’s characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery — brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.

There are animals all around us but we do not notice them.Keith Ridgway's third novel is a psychological menagerie of confusion, paranoia, searching and love. Narrated by an illustrator who can no longer draw, it tells of the sudden and inexplicable collapse of a private life, and the subsequent stubborn search for a place from which to take stock. We are surrounded here - by unsafe or haunted buildings, by artists and capitalists who flirt with terror, by writers and actresses and the deals they have made with unreality, and by the artificial, utterly constructed, scripted city in which we have agreed to live out a version of living. But there are cracks in the facade, and there are stirrings under the floorboards, and there animals everywhere you look, if only you'd dare to look for them.Unsettling, unhinged, provocative and richly funny, Animals is for human beings everywhere.

Grace Quinn exploitait hier encore une ferme dans la campagne irlandaise, aux côtés de son mari. Mais Grace a tué son mari. Avec préméditation peut-être, mais non point froidement : rien n'est froid dans son histoire. Et elle s'en va à Dublin rejoindre Martin, son grand fils, qu'elle n'a pas su aimer comme il aurait fallu... Prisonnière d'un passé qui refuse de se laisser oublier, Grace ne cesse de se faire violence à elle-même : elle joue au chat et à la souris avec la police mais voudrait avouer son crime à tous ceux qu'elle rencontre. Elle apprendra, au fil d'un itinéraire mouvementé, que l'aveu est une terrible épreuve : de toutes la plus périlleuse. Ce premier roman, portrait d'une femme aux abois, a fasciné la critique anglo-saxonne... au premier rang de laquelle quelques-uns des meilleurs écrivains de l'Irlande d'aujourd'hui (Keith Ridgway est né à Dublin en 1966).

Londres aujourdhui. Les personnages dépeints par Keith Ridgway sentremêlent lors dune fête de quartier, au pub du coin, dans leurs modestes appartements en marge de la ville. Ils forment une petite société underground, un monde sans rédemption où lon soublie dans des rencontres furtives afin de supporter le quotidien. Comme si, pour Ridgway, lécriture romanesque était avant tout un acte de résistance face à la dureté de lexistence. Un choc est une fresque sociale, crue, poétique, étrange. Magnifiquement humaine.