Different Class - Hardcover

Harris, Joanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385619235 ISBN 13: 9780385619233

Verlag: Doubleday, 2016

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The new novel from the impressively versatile Joanne Harris in her psychological thriller mode, at her darkest and most unsettling.

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Joanne Harris is one of our best-loved and most versatile novelists. She first appeared on the scene with the bestselling Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp), which turned into the sensuous Lansquenet trilogy (with Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé). She has since written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and now Different Class).

Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass in a band first formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, spends far too much time online and occasionally dreams of faking her own death and going to live in Hawaii.

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'Not just witty and often hilarious but compellingly suspenseful, Different Class is both a splendidly dark comedy and a disturbing thriller...an absolute delight.' Ramsey Campbell

GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS:

‘A delicious black comedy . . . the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you’d think she’d been writing thrillers all her life.’ Daily Mail


‘A terrific and absorbing suspense novel, with a cast of characters you come to really care about and enough twists and turns to keep you on your toes.’ Peter Robinson

‘A gripping psychological thriller . . . Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form.’ Daily Express

‘[A] clever story of obsession and revenge . . . another success.’ Sunday Telegraph



BLUEEYEDBOY:

‘Delivers an almighty twist in the tale . . . heartbreaking.’ The Times

‘An ingenious, gripping read . . . it terrified the living daylights out of me.’
Daily Express

‘Brilliantly written . . . beware unreliable narrators along with a huge plot twist at the end.’ Mirror

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After thirty years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its clowns, its rebels, its underdogs, its ‘Brodie’ boys, who, whilst of course he doesn’t have favourites, hold a special place in an old teacher’s heart. But every so often there’s a boy who doesn’t fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy capable of twisting everything around him. A boy with hidden shadows inside.

With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new broom has arrived at the venerable school, bringing PowerPoint, sharp suits and even sixth-form girls to the dusty corridors. But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who, even twenty years on, haunts his teacher’s dreams. A boy capable of bad things.

Set in Malbry, the same Yorkshire village as Gentlemen & Players and Blueeyedboy, Different Class shows Joanne Harris at her darkest and most unsettling, and confirms this impressively versatile writer’s mastery of the psychological thriller genre.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0385619235
• ISBN 13: 9780385619233
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar