Jane Rogers crée des romans qui explorent en profondeur l'expérience humaine, en abordant des questions éthiques complexes. Son style distinctif est reconnu pour sa perspicacité psychologique et sa capacité à créer des personnages captivants et mémorables. À travers son écriture, elle se concentre souvent sur des thèmes tels que l'identité, les relations et la recherche de sens dans la vie. Rogers contribue également au drame radiophonique et aux adaptations, démontrant sa polyvalence en tant que conteuse.
As the twin stories of David's mission and Anne's journey intertwine, they dovetail to build a profound and gripping narrative. The Voyage Home is an astonishing story of love and loss, of truth and temptation, and of family and faith.
Through its annual anthologies of New Writing the British Council launches many new authors and provides a shop window around the world in which vigorous new writing can be viewed. New Writing 12 is the new volume in this series, promoting the best in contemporary literature in the English language in Britain and internationally. It brings together some of the most formidable talents, placing new names alongside more established ones, includes extracts from novels in progress, non-fiction essays, short stories and poetry. Distinctive, innovative and entertaining, it is essential reading for all those interested in British writing today.
When God told Prophet John Wroe to comfort himself with seven virgins, his congregation gave him its daughters. So begins this provocative and immensely powerful novel, set in nineteenth-century England and based on actual events.Jane Rogers chronicles the nine months these women spend together until accusations of indecency and the trial that follows bring Wroe's household to its dramatic end. There is a cripple, a badly beaten mute, two underage sisters who can barely read, Joanna "the Saint," Hannah the unbeliever, and Leah, who secretly mothered an illegitimate child. And then there is Prophet Wroe, as enigmatic and attractive to each of the virgins as he is an iron hand. With an impeccably crafted narrative and utterly beguiling prose, Rogers delves deep into the conflicts surrounding faith, love, and passion. Ultimately each of the virgins comes away with a powerful lesson in independence.MR. WROE'S VIRGINS casts a spell on readers from the outset, playing on our expectations and touching a chord of desire that could lead to disaster on nearly every page. With an intelligence and skill that recall the work of A. S. Byatt and Margaret Atwood, Jane Rogers has given us novel of ideas that is not so much to be read as to be devoured.
This is a novel about Orph, a strange, silent and friendless young man taken up by a young woman who offers him a room in her house. It is written by the author of "The Ice is Singing" and "Her Living Image" for which she won the Somerset Maugham Award.
The island is a place where things are not quite as they appear; a magical place where the murder of a reclusive woman is not a cut and dried case. 'I thought I had come to the island to wrest control of my life back from the woman who had sabotaged it. But I was wrong. My mother was still writing my plot.' Nikki Black, intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth, goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. But her plans are confounded by the discovery that she has a brother. Not just any brother but a brother strangely possessed by their mother; a brother with a terrifying violent streak; an apparent simpleton whose head is filled with the stories of past islanders, Crofters, Vikings, Little People. A brother whose dangerous love and strange way of seeing the world transform Nikki's life.
Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud’s classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud’s compelling theory of das unheimliche —or, the uncanny. Specifically designed to challenge the creative boundaries of some of the most famed and respected horror writers working today—such as A. S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matthew Holness, and the indomitable Ramsey Campbell—this anatomically precise experiment encapsulates what the uncanny represents in the 21st century. Masterfully narrated with the benefit of unique perspectives on what exactly it is that goes bump in the night, this chilling modern collective is not only an essential read for fans of horror but also an insightful and intriguing introduction to the greats of the genre at their gruesome best.
In einer Welt, in der Frauen nach der Geburt sterben und keine Kinder mehr geboren werden, kämpft die junge Jessie Lamb gegen die katastrophalen Folgen eines unerforschten Virus. Entschlossen, neues Leben zu schenken, ist sie bereit, ihr eigenes dafür zu opfern.
Was wäre, wenn eines Tages keine Kinder mehr geboren würden? Die junge Jessie Lamb lebt in einer Welt, in der jede Frau, die nach ihrem sechzehnten Geburtstag schwanger wird, stirbt. Die Ursache ist ein bisher unerforschtes Virus, die Folgen sind katastrophal: Es werden keine Kinder mehr geboren, die Wissenschaft ist ratlos, und die Menschheit geht langsam, aber sicher ihrem Ende entgegen. Doch das kann und will Jessie nicht akzeptieren: Sie möchte dieser Welt etwas Gutes hinterlassen. Sie möchte neues Leben schenken, auch wenn das bedeutet, dass sie mit ihrem eigenen dafür bezahlen muss ...
Wie die Wahrheit über Gott Ihr Leben verändert
Rückkehr aus Afrika. Ein großer Roman um ein bewegendes Frauenschicksal. Annes Leben liegt in Scherben. Sie befindet sich auf einem Ozeandampfer auf der Rückreise von Afrika, wo sie ihren geliebten Vater begraben musste. Aus den Tagebüchern, die ihr Vater hinterlassen hat, hat sie erfahren, warum er vor vielen Jahren seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter verlassen hat, um nach Afrika zu gehen. Das traurige Geheimnis bricht der jungen Frau beinahe das Herz. Während der Überfahrt begreift Anne, dass Sie endlich ihr Leben selbst in die Hand nehmen muss.
