Toby Litt ist bekannt für seine Erforschung der Grenzen von Sexualität und Männlichkeit durch einen eindringlichen und oft provokanten Stil. Seine Werke tauchen tief in Themen wie Identität, Verlangen und die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen ein, die häufig vor einzigartigen und atmosphärischen Kulissen angesiedelt sind. Litts Schreibansatz zeichnet sich durch seine unerschütterliche Ehrlichkeit und seine Fähigkeit aus, intime Wahrheiten über die menschliche Erfahrung aufzudecken, und bietet den Lesern eine unvergessliche und zum Nachdenken anregende Reise.
Set in a world beyond the grave, two boys, Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, embrace their love for adventure and mysteries as exceptional detectives. Their unique perspective as deceased boys adds an intriguing twist to their escapades. As they navigate the afterlife, they explore themes of curiosity and friendship, engaging in thrilling investigations that blend the ordinary with the extraordinary.
Edwin Paine and Charles Roland have a lot in common - they re both English schoolboys who love a good detective story, and they ve been known to dabble in mystery-solving themselves. They re also both dead, a condition which has proven to be less of a hindrance than one might think.
A Writer's Diary is a novel that blends fact and fiction, invention and memoir with joyful creativity and remarkable literary ambition. In it, Toby Litt takes on some of the biggest questions of life and death, not to mention literary as well as human mortality and the steady march of time. At first, A Writer's Diary appears to be exactly what it claims to be. It is a daily summary of the events in a person called Toby Litt's life: his thoughts on creating literature, his concerns for his family and the people he teaches, his musings on the various things that catch his attention around his desk and his immediate surroundings... But as it progresses, questions start to arise. Is this fact? Or is it fiction? (And if it's both, which is which?) Is this a book about quotidian daily routines - one person's days as they unspool - or is something more going on? Is there something even larger taking shape? ... And so, seemingly by magic, an increasingly urgent narrative starts to build - a
A Tale of the Children's Crusade
"For the first time, the two-issue miniseries THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, written by Neil Gaiman, Alisa Kwitney and Jamie Delano, are collected - and with them, a new chapter written by Toby Litt that completes the tale as Gaiman originally envisioned it. When several children go missing in a small English town, the Dead Boy Detectives are on the case. A series of strange and unexpected twists take them to Free Country, a place that dates back a millennia, where children never grow old and are free from the abuse and tyranny of adults. But Free Country is failing, and what it needs is the strength of five innately powerful children - including the young sorcerer Timothy Hunter - to restore their uncanny world to what it once was. This hardcover collects THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #1 and THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #2, written by Gaiman with cowriters Alisa Kwitney and Jamie Delano. A brand-new middle chapter written by DEAD BOY DETECTIVES writer Toby Litt and drawn artist Peter Gross (THE BOOKS OF MAGIC, THE UNWRITTEN) completes this compelling tale of ancient history, stolen dreams and lost children. Also featuring a new introduction by Gaiman, plus new cover art by DEAD BOY DETECTIVES artist Mark Buckingham"--
Neil Gaimans unerschrockene tote Schuljungen Charles und Edwin aus dem SANDMAN-Zyklus sind wieder da! Sie kehren zurück in die grässliche Schule, in der beide ermordet wurden, denn sie wollen nicht nur die Umstände ihres eigenen Todes aufklären, sondern auch ihre neue Bekannte Crystal vor demselben Schicksal bewahren. Aus dem Sandman-Universum! Ein neuer Hit von Mark Buckingham!
A computer programmer feels reasonably satisfied with his life until he is sent with his colleague, the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand, to train provincial civil servants on a new computer system.
A vast generation ship hurtles away from a violent, troubled Earth to settle on a distant planet orbiting an alien star. Those who set out on this journey are long-since dead. Those who will arrive at their destination have yet to be born. For those who must live and die in the cold emptiness between the stars, there is only the claustrophobic permanence of non-being. Life lived in unending stasis. Then the unthinkable happens: two souls - Auguste and Celeste - rebel. And from the fruit of their rebellion comes a new and powerful force which will take charge of the ship's destiny. "Journey into Space" is science fiction at its most classic and beguiling: timeless, vast in scope and daring in execution.
Hospital is about blue murder anda saving lives, having sex and surgery, falling in love from a great height, crazy voodoo and hipnotic surveillance
When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family � baby Max and a new child on the way. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them. . . Ghost Story is a book both haunted and haunting, which asks how we can ever mourn something that hasn�t lived. Emotionally resonant, beautifully crafted and ultimately redemptive, it will take you to the heart of suffering and desire.
As editors Toby Litt and Ali Smith explain in their introduction: "newness is quite a venerable category. There's not much that's new about it. In the 1930s, when a magazine called "New Writing" was first published, it had to compete with "New Signatures," "New Country," "New Verse," the "New Statesman" "and Nation" and "New Theatre," and what with the "New Woman" of the 1890s and new everything else, even then, new wasn't the new new. . . If we've achieved diversity, it's because our submissions were themselves diverse; and the final selection is representative of the proportion of short stories to novel extracts, poems and essays that were submitted. Originality is only proven over time, paradoxically. We are confident that some of the names here you've never heard before will become very familiar. They may even disgrace themselves by winning prizes, becoming established, etc. But they'll be the kinds of writer, like the known names published here, for whom everything they write is a renewal - of language, of place, of the senses and of the contemporary."