Bøger af Alex Garland

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Beach by Alex Garland, read by Alfie Allen. The classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

Contemporary / British English 'Close your eyes ... imagine idyllic white sands and coral gardens.' Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about 'the beach', a secret island. It is paradise on earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns into hell...

The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But, deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. Soon, the crew are fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.

When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises questions about the the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness. As Carl grapples with his predicament, Alex Garland - author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, plays with conventions and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and haunting book about a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.

Efter et overfald på en af Londons undergrundsstationer går en ung mand i koma. På vej tilbage til livet bevæger han sig frem og tilbage mellem sin hospitalsseng og en række af de steder, der har betydet noget for ham, i et forsøg på at få et klart billede af det liv, han levede før overfaldet. Han opsøger sine venner, sit barndomshjem, sin egen lejlighed, sin sædvanlige boghandel og pladebutik - og blandt alle disse minder støder han både på selvmodsigende erindringer og ubesvarede spørgsmål om nutiden. Fortælleren bevæger sig på grænsen mellem drøm og virkelighed. Kom han nogensinde ud af sin koma? Er det muligt at skelne mellem den, man er, og det, man drømmer?

Khao San Road, Bangkok. Efter en nat på et snusket herberg finder den unge englænder Richard et kort på sin dør, der viser vej til "Stranden". Stranden er en legende blandt unge rejsende i Asien. Et lille samfund, der tilsyneladende lever i paradisisk harmoni. For Richard er udfordringen uimodståelig. Han begiver sig ud i eventyret. Og finder det. Men under idyllen på Stranden lurer rædslen.

Scenen er sat i Manila på Filippinerne. Tre historier udspiller sig på én og samme aften, tre forskellige steder i byen. Den unge englæder Sean afventer på et snusket hotelværelse gangsteren Don Pepe og hans tre håndlangere, der kommer for at likvidere ham. Middelklassekvinden Rosa venter andetsteds i byen på sin mand, der er punkteret på vej hjem fra arbejde. Punkteringen er forårsaget af de to gadebørn Vincente og Totoy, der strejfer om i byens labyrintiske slumgader. De tre historier kolliderer i en blodig og overraskende finale, hvor hollywoodsk film noir for det nye årtusinde møder det moderne Asiens sveddryppende kaos.

Following on from the success of his thriller, Ex Machina, Alex Garland returns to cerebral sci-fi with his adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's cult novel -a tale of a biologist attempting to uncover the mystery of her husband's disappearance into a restricted zone.What she and her fellow scientists discover is a world populated by mysterious life forms that might offer answers, but which exposes them to madness and death.Beside the screenplay, the book also includes 20 pages of behind-the-scenes photos.

In less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husband s car, and thirteen-year-old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street-kids dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide . . .

What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet?

A young man is brutally assaulted in an underground train. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, until he starts noticing strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience.