Andrew O'Hagan

An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is to go at life differently.Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. Mayflies is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?

From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes. The second? Milo Manghasa, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, he always when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.'A brilliant state-of-the-nation novel that pulls down the facades of high society, and knocks over the 'good liberal' house-of-cards. O'Hagan is not only a peerless chronicler of our times, but has other gifts - of generosity, humour and tenderness - which make this novel an utter joy to read.' Monica Ali

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? The Illuminations, Andrew O'Hagan's fifth work of fiction, is a powerful, nuanced and deeply affecting novel about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact.Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth an artistic pioneer, a creator of groundbreaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain in the British army is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. When his mission goes horribly wrong, he ultimately comes face to face with questions of loyalty and moral responsibility that will continue to haunt him. Once Luke returns home to Scotland, Anne's secret story begins to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room. There they witness the annual illuminations--the dazzling artificial lights that brighten the seaside resort town as the season turns to winter. The Illuminations is a beautiful and highly charged novel that reveals, among other things, that no matter how we look at it, there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

"Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness—his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present. In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O’Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.

First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me.Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Whitbread Award.Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a visionary urban planner, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland’s residential development after the Second World War. But times have changed. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own failed buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. The old man’s final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him.It is Jamie who tells the story of his family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of political idealism. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. A poignant and powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is a deeply felt, beautifully crafted, utterly unforgettable novel.

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences. 'The Invention of Ronnie Pinn' finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey into the deep web's darkest realms. And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a phrase from the tech world, 'disrupted'? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.

Meet Maf: The hilariously opinionated, well-read, politically scrappy, and complex canine companion to Marilyn Monroe.In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. Born in the household of Vanessa Bell, brought to the United States by Natalie Wood’s mother, and given as a Christmas present to Marilyn the winter after she separated from Arthur Miller, Maf was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life, first in New York and then in Los Angeles, and he had as much instinct for celebrity and psychoanalysis as he did for Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits. Marylin took him to meet President Kennedy and to Hollywood restaurants, to department stores, to interviews, and to Mexico for her divorce. Through Maf's eyes, we see an altogether original and wonderfully clever portrait of the woman behind the icon—and the dog behind the woman.

Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singing voice wins her a talent show at the tender age of thirteen, she is whisked off to London and instant stardom.But even as Maria is celebrating her greatest success, she is waging a hidden battle against her own body, and becoming in the process a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity. Can she be saved by love? Or will she be consumed by an obsessive celebrity culture, family lies, and by her number-one fan?This stunning novel is a rich portrait of an immigrant community and a tragic tale of the hidden costs of celebrity.

This book - part autobiography, part inquiry into mystery, part social history - tries to find out how people can disappear without a trace, and looks at the impact these disappearances can have on communities.

Andrew O'Hagan

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us our friends. If we are lucky in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean faces; they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life; some will span decades, and some will be only fleeting. But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable - but unimagined - without them. In these gorgeous personal reflections, Andrew O'Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do. Andrew O'Hagan's novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024

Originally published in the 'London Review of Books', journalist Andrew O'Hagan reports on his time spent with the Australian computer scientist Craig Wright in an attempt to discover whether or not he is the elusive bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakomoto.

British farming is in terminal two years ago agriculture contributed 6.9 billion pounds to the British economy, around 1 per cent of GDP. The figure of 2000 is 1.8 billion pounds. In the eye of the animal holocaust of the year 2001 Andrew O'Hagan travelled the length and breadth of the country, talking to farmers, small and large, farmers with no crops and no animals. This is his report of the state of our fields. He takes the long view, tracing changes back to the Second World War, the international view of globalisation, supermarket shopping and the EU. Most of all he takes a personal view - that of one of Britain's most admired, sensitive and subtle writers.

Until recently, Gregor Schneider has focused primarily on Dead House ur , the ongoing 20-year transformation of his parents' former home in Rheydt, Germany, which was reconstructed in the German Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale when Schneider was awarded the Golden Lion for Sculpture. On a smaller scale, on October 2, 2004, Die Familie Schneider took up residence in neighboring identical houses on a very ordinary street in London's East End. This book is Schneider's extension of that work, a document and exploration of his obsession with repression, reproduction and particularly, in this case, repetition in images and text. Schneider is internationally renowned for his unnerving presentation of normality, and his medium is the room--kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom--and the cellar. Under his hand, the domestic environment becomes the site of an unrelenting existential confrontation.

" On dit qu'on ne sait rien à dix-huit ans. Mais il y a des choses qu'on sait à dix-huit ans et qu'on ne saura plus jamais. " Tout le monde rêve d'avoir dans sa vie un Tully Dawson, le type d'ami qui vous marque à jamais, qui vous rappelle que la vie peut être différente. Écosse, été 1986. Sur fond de thatchérisme sauvage, un groupe de jeunes gars de la classe ouvrière décide de suivre Tully pour fêter la fin du lycée dans un festival de musique mythique à Manchester, la Mecque du punk rock, de la new wave, de la musique qu'on met à fond ! Ce voyage vibrant sera aussi le début de la vie adulte et la promesse que les passions qu'ils partagent – la musique, le cinéma, l'humour, la provoc – résisteront toujours. Trente ans plus tard, le téléphone sonne. Tully annonce une nouvelle importante, une nouvelle qui va tout renverser... Un roman brillant, drôle et émouvant, un hommage à la puissance et à la beauté intemporelle de l'amitié.

La muerte de Margaret Thatcher, el 8 de abril de 2013, tuvo dos consecuencias inmediatas: puso fin a una era que sus políticas inauguraron y reabrió las profundas heridas que su ejercicio del poder abrió en la sociedad británica. En "Maggie" Andrew O'Hagan, cuya adolescencia coincidió con los gobiernos de Thatcher, reflexiona sobre una figura tan polémica como transcendental para la historia del siglo XX.En "En busca de Escocia", el ensayo que lo acompaña, O'Hagan, nacido en Glasgow, realiza un ejercicio de autocrítica sobre el nacionalismo; es un texto de lectura obligada a las puertas del referéndum previsto para el 2014.

Paperback. 13,50 / 20,00 cm. In Turkish. 373 p.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Titles In This Caledonian Road [Hardcover] Our Fathers Andrew O'Hagan 2 Books Collection Set (Our Fathers, Caledonian Road [Hardcover]): Caledonian Road [Hardcover]: May 2021. London.Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan. Our Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left.9780571381357/9780571201068

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Andrew O'Hagan 3 Books Collection Our Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion. Everyone has a Tully the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester played out against the greatest. Caledonian Road [Hardback]: Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes. The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student.9780571381357/9780571273713/B0184W2C0Q

Sei rebellisch, das Leben kriegt dich so oder soTully und James, der eine bereit für das Leben, der andere offen, sich von seinem Freund mitreißen zu lassen, wachsen in den Achtzigern in einer schottischen Kleinstadt auf. Einer Stadt ohne Perspektiven und Zukunft, mit vorgezeichneten Lebensläufen und Schicksalen. Die Musik ist ihnen Zuflucht und Ausweg, Manchester im Jahr 86 ihr Mekka. Ein Wochenende lang spielen dort ihre Heroen, Bands wie The Smiths, New Order oder Joy Division. Mit ihrer Clique ziehen die beiden durch die Clubs, getragen von den Riffs der Gitarren, der Magie des Fortseins von zu Hause und von einem Rausch, wie nur die Jugend ihn kennt. Dreißig Jahre später erhält James einen Anruf. Es ist Tully. Er hat Neuigkeiten. Er wird sterben. Und er hat eine letzte Bitte.Eintagsfliegen setzt der Euphorie der Jugend ein Denkmal, und ist zugleich eine bewegende Reflexion auf Freundschaft und die Zerbrechlichkeit des Lebens.»Ein unvergessliches Buch!« Cólm Toibín»Lebensbejahend und elegisch« The Observer»Uhren anhalten, Handys aus und lesen. Eintagsfliegen ist eines jener Bücher, an die man ein Leben lang denkt.« The Australian