Liz Jensen

Charlotte Schleswig, the narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps at a new job opportunity for herself and Fru Schleswig, as cleaning ladies for a wealthy widow. But mysteries abound at Fru Krak's dark old mansion. The basement appears to be haunted, townspeople claim to have seen the dead Professor Krak walking the streets as a ghost, and there are stories of desperate souls who paid the professor a visit and never emerged. In fact, there is a simple explanation for all this: the basement is home to a time machine. When their cunning investigations land them in trouble, Charlotte and Fru Schleswig find themselves catapulted through time and space to modern-day London, and there their adventures truly begin.--From publisher description.

Louis Drax est un enfant facétieux qui passe son temps à mourir et à ressusciter. Du fond du coma, Louis Drax tente de communiquer avec les adultes. Un thriller psychologique qui flirte avec le surnaturel.

Meet Hannah Park, slave to the democracy machine, and Harvey Kidd, the man the system spat out. Atlantica, a world of compulsive consumption, fervent Utopianism, emotional discovery, and love on the rocks. Torn from his family, exiled from his native island of Atlantica, and imprisoned on the former Disney ship Sea Hero, one-time computer whiz Harvey Nash has found solace in the voodoo art of papier-mache. But as the execution date of his violent cellmate approaches, he is confronted with daily reminders of the wrongful sentence meted out to him by the consumer-dedicated system he once voted for. Is it too late for vengeance of Libertycare's Facilitator General, and the machine known as the Boss? Was the disappearance of the woman Harvey loved a tragic accident - or something more sinister? And is the notorious Sect really so dangerous that only erasure of civil liberties can contain it? In a witty, satirical vision of the future worthy of Orwell or Huxley, Jensen evokes a world of rampant consumerism, blind obedience, virtual love and home-chewed papier-mache.

Roman policier Dans un internat psychiatrique de la province anglaise, Gabrielle, jeune et jolie psychothérapeute clouée à son fauteuil roulant depuis un accident de voiture, a pour patiente Bethany, 16 ans, psychotique totalement ingérable, enfermée pour avoir tué sa mère à l'aide d'un tournevis. Manipulatrice, intelligente et agressive, Bethany a le pouvoir de prévoir les catastrophes naturelles. Tsunamis, cyclones, hurricanes, tremblements de terre, éruptions volcaniques, rien de lui échappe, surtout après ses séances d'électrochocs...Avec l'aide d'un physicien qui pour la circonstance met de côté ses a priori, Gabrielle va essayer de contrôler Bethany, et d'empêcher ainsi un nouveau drame. Car, quoi qu'en dise la communauté scientifique, chaque prédiction de Bethany s'est bel et bien réalisée....Course-poursuite infernale contre le temps et malgré l'hostilité des autorités, leur combat se heurte alors à un dernier obstacle : l'influence démesurée d'un prédicateur illuminé, le révérend Leonard Krall, qui n'est autre que le père de Bethany.