Bøger af Terence Blacker

When Thomas Wisdom hacks into his father's computer, he discovers secret upon secret. First, he learns that he's adopted. Then he learns that his parents are angels, sent to earth to save humanity from itself.

Tri, Jamie und Marko sind Außenseiter - vereint durch ihre Liebe zur Musik. Ihre Band Eye Trouble nutzt den alten Musikraum der Schule für ihre Proben.In letzter Zeit sind dort jedoch seltsame Dinge passiert...Dinge gehen verloren, der Speicher eines Telefons wird gelöscht, Papiere liegen auf einmal verstreut auf dem Boden. Und dann zerlegt jemand den ganzen Raum.

Als sein Cousin Sam aus Amerika zu Besuch nach London kommt, ändert sich Matthews Leben gründlich: Sam ist unhöflich, riecht schlecht, hat lange Haare und bringt Matthew und seine Freunde in ziemliche Schwierigkeiten. Bevor sie ihn also in ihre Clique aufnehmen, muss Sam einen Test bestehen: Eine Woche, genau fünf Schultage, muss Sam als Mädchen verbringen. "Sam as in Samantha." said Jake. "All you have to do is be a girl for five days at school. if you agree to do that, your're in. You're one of us." Was als Spaß begann, wird schnell ernst, als Sams Vater nach London kommt, um seinen Sohn wieder heimzuholen.

Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been one of the great, under-rated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence.His achievements were significant - he published Sylvia Plath while still at Cambridge, as a producer in the Sixties he staged Beyond the Fringe, and he was later to write the celebrated Henry Root Letters - but not as impressive as his reckless talent for self-destruction. The impresario became a serial bankrupt. The man about town, who had lived with Sarah Miles and been engaged to Carly Simon, ended up as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. Success as a writer quickly led him into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual obsession. Now friend and collaborator, Terence Blacker unravels the intimate truth of Willie Donaldson's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain.'What a young fool I was. But how I adored him' Carly Simon'A slimy crook' Private Eye'For the skill and wit of his writing he deserves to be hailed as the English Nabokov' Auberon Waugh'I am someone who always answers the phone at 1.00 am, because I know it isn't going to be my bank manager or the Inland Revenue, but probably a crack dealer or a prostitute' Willie Donaldson

"All you have to do is be a girl for five days at school. If you agree to do that, you're in. You're one of us."

A warm and witty collection of letters from HRH Elizabeth II, as imagined by Terence Blacker.