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Caesarion
In the port of Alexandria, a very long time ago, Julius Caesar impregnated and then abandoned Cleopatra. The child of their union – groomed for greatness by his devoted mother but destined for tragedy – was called Caesarion. Little Caesar. History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. In our time, another boy, Ludwig, is born in Alexandria and again the father flees the scene of the birth. The boy and his mother are soon obliged to move on. She, Marthe, is stormy, impetuous and vain. She will not rest until she finds their ideal home – which needs to be both dramatic and cheap. And so Ludwig and his mother end up on a clifftop in Suffolk in a house being eaten from the inside...
The Death of Murat Idrissi
Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour, they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an even tighter one: and from this far darker space there is no exit. Their tale of confinement and escape is as old as the landscapes and cultures so vividly depicted in this story of where Europe and Africa come closest to meeting, even if they never quite touch.
A Beautiful Young Wife
‘He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.’ Edward Landauer, a brilliant microbiologist in his forties, meets a beautiful young woman. She is the love of his life, and when the two marry in France, Edward is the happiest man in the world. At first, Ruth Walta appears to represent a victory over time, but even she cannot stop him growing older. After the birth of their long-awaited son, the ‘happiness, delicate like filigree’ turns into something new, and Edward no longer recognises his great romance nor the woman who induced it. PRAISE FOR TOMMY WIERINGA ‘Brilliantly written … the last few pages are mesmerising.’ The Saturday Age ‘While the narrative focuses on the collapse of one man’s world, it still raises huge moral questions … Haunting.’ The Sunday Times
These Are the Names
WINNER OF THE 2015 ENGLISH PEN AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GREGOR VON REZZORI AWARD A border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that he has embarked upon. Now he becomes the group’s inquisitor … and, finally, something like their saviour. Beg’s likeability as a character and his dry-eyed musings con...
Joe Speedboat
A crash of a novel - a crackingly entertaining story about two boys, one wheelchair, and a friendship that propels them headfirst into maturity.
These Are the Names
A border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that he has embarked upon. Now he becomes the group’s inquisitor … and, finally, something like their saviour. Beg’s likeability as a character and his dry-eyed musings considering the nature of religion keep the reader pinned to the page from the start. At the same time, the apocalyptic atmosphere of the group’s exodus across the steppes becomes increasingly vivid and laden with meaning as the novel proceeds, in seeming synchronicity with the development of Beg’s character. With a rare blend of humour and wisdom, Tommy Wieringa links man’s dark nature with the question of who we are and whether redemption is possible.
The Blessed Rita
'He had seen more and more people from the East in recent years. Mostly gypsies, people said. Bulgarians, Romanians - you could tell by the plates on the vans and the trailers. The Poles had been around for some time already. Burglaries, thefts. The blessings of the new Europe.' Paul Kr zen lives with his father in an old farmhouse, not far from the German border. Where once his father took care of him, now he takes care of his father. It has been a long time since his beautiful, worldly-wise mother left them for the arms of a Russian pilot, never once looking back. Paul's world is changing- his small Dutch village is now home to Chinese restaurateurs, Polish plumbers, and Russian thugs. Sai...
The Blessed Rita
‘He had seen more and more people from the East in recent years. Mostly gypsies, people said. Bulgarians, Romanians — you could tell by the plates on the vans and the trailers. The Poles had been around for some time already. Burglaries, thefts. The blessings of the new Europe.’ Paul Krüzen lives with his father in an old farmhouse, not far from the German border. Where once his father took care of him, now he takes care of his father. It has been a long time since his beautiful, worldly-wise mother left them for the arms of a Russian pilot, never once looking back. Paul’s world is changing: his small Dutch village is now home to Chinese restaurateurs, Polish plumbers, and Russian t...
Little Caesar
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2009 AKO LITERATURE PRIZE Ludwig Unger’s life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world’s concert halls. In his mother’s imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he’s playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, and Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story o...
Honorair kozak
Dit zijn de avonturen van een hotelburger en een onvermoeibare reiziger. Op de Oekraïense steppe wordt Tommy Wieringa tot honorair kozak geslagen, in Wenen vindt hij een illustere dubbelganger die naamloos door de geschiedenis werd toegedekt en in een woestijnklooster waant hij zich de valse bruid van Jezus. De reis voert langs muzen en minnaressen, gaat te paard, per schip en in gammele vliegtuigjes – Wieringa toont zich een onverschrokken wereldveroveraar. Veel van zijn tochten ondernam Tommy Wieringa om onderzoek te doen voor zijn romans Joe Speedboot, Caesarion en Dit zijn de namen, boeken die voor de liefhebber duidelijk meeklinken in deze verhalen.
