The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should run.

'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Ingenious' - Guardian

Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven

A Best Book of 2022 - Guardian, Oprah Daily, Barack Obama
'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times
'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal

A dreamily atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again.

Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.

If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?

The New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
National Book Awards Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Station Eleven is part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

From the author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel is the story of the lives caught up in two very different tragedies: a woman disappearing from a container ship, and a massive Ponzi scheme imploding in New York.

'A perfect post-lockdown read' – Sunday Times
'Elegant, haunting' – The Times
'A damn fine novel . . . evocative and immersive' – George R. R. Martin

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life together.

That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core.

When Alkaitis's investment fund is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, Leon loses his retirement savings in the fallout, but Vincent seemingly walks away unscathed. Until, a decade later, she disappears from the deck of one of Leon's ships . . .

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven

Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way. But then she meets Eli, and he's not ready to let her go, not without a fight.

Gorgeously written, charged with tension and foreboding, Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal is the story of a life spent at the centre of a criminal investigation. It is a novel about identity, love and amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds and - ultimately - about the nature of obsession.

How far would you go for someone you love?

The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted back to a secretive past he didn't realize he'd left behind.

But that photo has set off a cascade of dangerous consequences and, as one by one the members of the Lola Quartet are reunited, a terrifying story emerges: of innocent mistakes, of secrecy and of a life lived on the run.

Filled with love, music and thwarted dreams, Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a thrilling novel about how the errors of the past can threaten the future.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven

After shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin, Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for himself. But then a routine security check brings his past crashing back towards him. His marriage and career in ruins, Anton finds himself in Italy with one last job from his cousin. But there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . .

The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation against her will. Taut and thrilling, it is a novel about identity and loyalty, and the things we are willing to sacrifice for love.

Werden wir die Erde vermissen?

Die Menschheit kommt nicht zur Ruhe. 1912 wird Edwin St. Andrew, Adelsspross aus England mit einer ketzerischen Haltung zum britischen Imperialismus, in die britische Kolonie Kanada exiliert und sucht dort sein Glück. 2203 bricht die berühmte Schriftstellerin Olive Llewellyn eine weltweite Lesereise ab, um zurück zu ihrer Familie auf den nun kolonialisierten Mond zu fliegen, als erste Meldungen über eine Pandemie laut werden. 2401, es gibt inzwischen Kolonien auf den Monden des Saturns, soll Gaspery-Jacques Roberts durch die Zeit reisen, um einer Anomalie nachzugehen, die vermuten lässt, dass die gesamte Geschichte der Menschheit nichts weiter ist als eine Simulation. 

Mit erzählerischer Brillanz und Leichtigkeit verwebt Emily St. John Mandel so große Themen wie die Kolonialisierung der Erde und des Weltraums, Pandemie und Technologie zu einem organischen Ganzen. Ein Roman, der ebenso lustvoll zu lesen ist wie er zum Nachdenken – auch und insbesondere über unsere Gegenwart – anregt. 

Die Welt ist aus den Fugen

 »Die Grippe war damals wie eine Neutronenbombe auf der Erde explodiert, und es folgte eine Schockwelle – die ersten unsäglichen Jahre, als alle sich auf Wanderschaft begaben, bis den Leuten klar wurde, dass es keinen Ort auf der Welt gab, an dem das Leben so weiterging wie zuvor …«

Zwanzig Jahre nach dem Kollaps der Zivilisation zieht Kirsten mit einer Schauspieltruppe durch die Landschaften einer verwüsteten Welt. Sie geben Shakespeare-Stücke in den Siedlungen, die seither entstanden sind. Ein Neuanfang scheint endlich möglich. Doch in St. Deborah by the Water, an den Ufern des Lake Michigan, erhebt sich eine ungeahnte Gefahr. Ein gewaltbereiter Prophet bedroht die sprießenden Hoffnungen der Überlebenden auf eine sichere Welt.

„Das Glashotel ist ein eindringliches und erfüllendes Leseerlebnis, das den Spielraum der Fantasie innerhalb der Grenzen unserer Wirklichkeit auslotet … Revolutionär.“ The Atlantic

„Ein Roman, der so vereinnahmend ist, so perfekt komponiert, dass er seine Leser mit sich fortreißt und ihren Möglichkeitssinns erweitert.“ NPR

„Elegant und verführerisch.“ The Guardian

Ein Luxushotel an der westlichen Küste Kanadas, jenseits der großen Fenster das Meer, Inseln, die Vegetation des Nordens. Ein Refugium für gestresste Städter, für die junge Barkeeperin Vincent aber ein Ort mit schmerzhaften Erinnerungen. Als eine alle Anwesenden erschütternde Botschaft auf eine der Scheiben der Lobby geschmiert wird, ergreift sie die Gelegenheit und geht mit dem Investor Jonathan Alkaitis nach New York. Was sie nicht weiß: Alkaitis Vermögen beruht auf Betrug, und als er untergeht, reißt er seine Anleger mit hinab in die Tiefe, und Vincents Leben wird ein weiteres Mal in unvorhergesehene Fahrwasser gelenkt.
Mit Das Glashotel hat Emily St. John Mandel einen Roman über die Odyssee des modernen Menschen geschrieben, einen Roman über Entwurzelung und Wandel, über das Ergreifen von Gelegenheiten und scheiternde Pläne und nicht zuletzt über unsere lebenslange Suche nach jenem Ort, den wir Heimat nennen können.

Certa noite, o famoso ator Arthur Leander tem um ataque cardíaco no palco, durante a apresentação de Rei Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, um paparazzo com treinamento em primeiros socorros, está na plateia e vai em seu auxílio. A atriz mirim Kirsten Raymonde observa horrorizada a tentativa de ressuscitação cardiopulmonar enquanto as cortinas se fecham, mas o ator já está morto. Nessa mesma noite, enquanto Jeevan volta para casa, uma terrível gripe começa a se espalhar. Os hospitais estão lotados, e pela janela do apartamento em que se refugiou com o irmão, Jeevan vê os carros bloquearem a estrada, tiros serem disparados e a vida se desintegrar.

Quase vinte anos depois, Kirsten é uma atriz na Sinfonia Itinerante. Com a pequena trupe de artistas, ela viaja pelos assentamentos do mundo pós-calamidade, apresentando peças de Shakespeare e números musicais para as comunidades de sobreviventes.

Abarcando décadas, a narrativa vai e volta no tempo para descrever a vida antes e depois da pandemia. Enquanto Arthur se apaixona e desapaixona, enquanto Jeevan ouve os locutores dizerem boa-noite pela última vez e enquanto Kirsten é enredada por um suposto profeta, as reviravoltas do destino conectarão todos eles. Impressionante, único e comovente, Estação Onze reflete sobre arte, fama e efemeridade, e sobre como os relacionamentos nos ajudam a superar tudo, até mesmo o fim do mundo.

“Não é um romance sobre crise e sobrevivência. É sobre arte, família, memória, comunidade e sobre a coragem necessária para enxergar o mundo com olhos esperançosos.” Entertainment Weekly