She lives in cape town, south africa with her husband and her daughter. It really is a new kind of thriller, sitting somewhere between the time travellers wife and the silence of the lambs. Lauren beukes new book is about a world without men thursday, 30 april 2020 3 hours ago menafn the conversation based in 2023, south african writer lauren beukes novel afterland captures the devastating effects of a global pandem. Matt haig lauren beukes is jeff noon crossed with raymond chandler. In july 2014, beukes published a new novel called broken monsters, which is set in detroit, michigan. A dark, relentless, timetwisting, pageturning murder story guaranteed to give you heart palpitations. Join the reading list and penguin random house for the facebook live launch of lauren beukess new novel. Lauren beukes is an awardwinning, bestselling novelist, who has described herself as a recovering journalist, tv scriptwriter, awardwinning columnist and writer aka glorified typist.
Lauren beukes made her debut as a published author in 2005 with the nonfiction book maverick. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and tv. Thus i naturally have an interest in the writing of lauren beukes given her position in the vanguard of the new science fiction that has been flowing from africa. Inspired by john scalzis awesome the big idea, the spark is a guest space on my blog, where african novelists can promote their new novels by writing a short personal essay about the inspiration or the spark. Afterland is a thoroughly gripping, imaginative thriller about a mother protecting her son, a rare survivor of a devastating plague that wiped out most of earths male population. She is also one of 42 million survivors of child sexual abuse living in the u.
Steven eriksons malazan book of the fallen helped breathe new life into fantasy fiction, although it still has something of a limit. Lauren beukes newest novel afterland with a worldwide publication date of july 28, and available to south african readers as an ebook since. Lauren beukes is an awardwinning, bestselling novelist who also writes screenplays, tv shows, comics and journalism. Michael joseph signs lauren beukes thriller the bookseller. Lauren beukes collects some of her short stories and essays in slipping. March 20 jeannemarie jackson fiction the shining girls by lauren beukes. Lauren beukes author of the shining girls goodreads. Lauren beukes new book is about a world without men. In her new book, a man named harper curtis living in depressionera chicago comes upon a house or house, as it is capitalised in the novel. Lauren beukes is a south african author and filmmaker.
Africa in words guest, professor james smith of the university of edinburgh, writes. Clicking any links beside the book lists will lead you to amazon for more details or to purchase the book. Purchase the shining girls by lauren beukes on paperback online and enjoy having your favourite mysterysuspense books delivered to you in south africa. Lauren beukes new book is about a world without men april 30, 2020 7. I love how they really got the heart of the book, which is all about. From gilmore girls to gilmore girls ballantine, that recounts her experiences on the original. Famous for her bestsellers moxyland, zoo city, the shining girls and more recently broken monsters, beukes is a writer with many facets. Lauren beukes is an awardwinning, bestselling novelist who also. When we meet lauren slater at the beginning of her ambitious new book, blue dreams. Lauren lives in cape town, south africa with her daughter. Her novels have been published in 24 countries and are being adapted for film and tv. Lauren beukes is a novelist, tv scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist she won the 2011 arthur c clarke award for her novel zoo city, set in a fantastical johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars.
This is, on its face, sort of curious, since the book is set in chicago between 1929. Society is in disrepair and, with no cure in sight, women. The spark is a series of guest blogs highlighting new african fiction with authors writing about what lit up this book in their heads. Below is a list of lauren beukes books in order of when they were originally released. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
I will, however, be on the lookout for new works from ms beukes. A highly contagious virus, called hcv, has killed around four billion men. He was raised predominantly in port elizabeth and is now based in johannesburg. Lauren beukes is most famous in the science fiction and fantasy world as the author of four novels. Detective gabriella versado has seen a lot of bodies. Lauren beukes is currently considered a single author. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, kirby mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Clarke award and the 2010 kitschies red tentacle for best novel.
We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outof. Her latest novel, the shining girls, is about a timetraveling serial killer and has been optioned for tv by leonardo dicaprios production company appian way. Her first book moxyland sold locally in books stores, and internationally via ospreys publishing. Each week, our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your attention and highlight them in our pro connect email alert. Lauren beukess new novel the shining girls is a very big deal in the world of south african publishing. Imagine florida beachcombers shock when they discover a shoe with a severed foot inside. Whats scarier than a psychopathic serial killer that can travel through time toying with victims at various points in their life. It was something of a joy to come across zoo city, a book id wanted to read since the first time i read the blurb zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. In depressionera chicago, harper curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. Her latest novel is broken monsters shes the author of the phantasmagorical noir, zoo city which won the arthur c clarke award 2011 and the kitschies red tentacle 2010 as well as the dystopian corporate apartheid thriller moxyland 2008 which william. Moving from witty to sad to horrifying, she makes it all seem effortless. Not much if lauren beukes new thriller, the shining girls. Lauren beukes is the awardwinning and internationally bestselling south african author of the shining girls, zoo city and afterland, among other works. We will send you one email a month notifying you of any hot new books announced or coming out, as well as any new additions to the site.
Thus begins the shining girls, lauren beukess strong contender for the role of this summers universal beach read. Professionally i research the role science and technology play in shaping africas development. Set in a johannesburg not unlike our own, the novel features zinzi december, an underclass toughchick with a witty mouth, a sloth on her back who pulls 419 scams for a living. How can we involve all our south african families in reading and storytelling, even where it is not possible to buy new books. Her radiant smile and sweet disposition warmed the hearts of everyone she met, and she loved to play pretend, but things changed the day a new babysitter came into little laurens life. The fact so many ideas are so prevalent and strong in the shining girls is proof that beukes has crafted much more then a simple thriller, or even a simple time travel thriller. Lauren book laurens kids child sexual abuse survivor. A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned detroit warehouses in lauren beukess new genrebending novel of suspense. She debuted as a novelist in 2008 with the novel moxyland. To save herself, she has to find the hardest thing of allthe truth. The book tells the story of little lauren, who lived with her loving family in a small stone house by the sea. The cover of the british edition of the book was awarded the 2010 bsfa award for best artwork, and the book itself was shortlisted in the best novel category of the award.
Laurens kids book child sex abuse education school. Broken monsters isbn 9780316216838 pdf epub lauren. The shining girls, a novel by lauren beukes the new. See all books authored by lauren beukes, including broken monsters, and the shining girls, and more on. When she is hired to do her least favourite of jobs, finding a. Lauren beukes new novel afterland launches to south african. I am always here for new lauren beukes, but this one sounds particularly.
She also occasionally finds lost things, for a fee of course. The shining girls, by lauren beukes lauren beukes new thriller the shining girls traces a timetraveling serial killer as he jumps through the decades, pursued by the only one of. She is the author of four books the shining girls 20, zoo city 2011, which won the arthur c clarke award, moxyland 2008 and maverick. Popsugar threw up a list of 35 mustread books by women for 2020 and afterland is number 1. The shining girls is a mystery thriller about a time travelling serial killer who brutally murders women. Lauren beukes has written other books that boosted her international fame, winning her several prize awards and the honor of getting her works adapted for screenplay. Fbi special agent aloysius pendergast finds evil afoot in his latest actionfilled adventure verses for the dead, 2018, etc. Ed, is an internationally respected and renowned child advocate, former classroom teacher, bestselling author, and florida state senator. Beukes is a south african whose earlier works have been closer to. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in new york and chicago. And that part is not simple either, as this picture of beukes planning the mystery of the shining girls out illustrates.
In this new world, women exercise power for and against each otherthe power of love, the power of violence, unleashed in the absence of men. She also wrote a story arc for the graphic novel series fairest, a spinoff of bill willinghams fables. She attended roedean school in johannesburg, and has an ma in creative writing from the university of cape town. Because of her experience, book founded laurens kids, a 501 c 3 nonprofit foundation, a decade. Her books include the shining girls, zoo city winner of the arthur c clarke award, moxyland and broken. It could, more successfully i believe, have remained as a straight crime novel, albeit macabre, without that contrivance. But author lauren beukes manages to make it a new concept. Acclaimed author lauren beukes returns with afterland a striking. Based in 2023, south african writer lauren beukes novel afterland captures the devastating effects of a global pandemic. If lauren beukess internationally bestselling the shining girls was a timejumping thrill ride through the past, her broken monsters is a genreredefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again. That is until one, kirby mazrachi, survives by chance and luck. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed. The science and the story of drugs that changed our minds little, brown, 399 pp. Zoo city is a 2010 science fiction novel by south african author lauren beukes.
Lauren beukes is a recovering journalist, tv scriptwriter, awardwinning columnist and writer aka glorified typist. It won the arthur c clarke award and the kitchies red tentacle. Lauren beukes books list of books by author lauren beukes. When a half boy, half deer body surfaces in detroit, its up to detective gabriella versado to find out what entity is responsible for poisoning her city, while also wrangling in her teenage daughter obsessed with exposing online predators. For the most part, broken monsters was an enjoyable read, but let down i thought by a contrived ending which spilled over into the supernatural.