Books by James Meek and Complete Book Reviews

The People's Act of Love
The People's Act of Love
James Meek, Author . Canongate $24 (391p) ISBN 978-1-84195-730-2
Set during the waning days of the Russian revolution, Meek's utterly absorbing novel (after The Museum of Doubt ) captivates with its depiction of human nature in all its wartime extremes. In 1919, the remote Siberian town of Yazyk contains a...
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We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
James Meek, Author . Canongate $24 (295p) ISBN 978-1-84767-176-9
The author of The People's Act of Love returns with the midlife deconstruction of a reluctant war correspondent working in post-9/11 Afghanistan. What Scots journalist Adam Kellas truly wants is to be a bestselling novelist, but he watches...
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The Heart Broke In
The Heart Broke In
James Meek. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-16871-1
At the heart of British writer Meek’s seventh work of fiction (after We Are Now Beginning Our Descent) are brother and sister Ritchie, has-been pop-star, and Bec Shepherd, promising malaria researcher, whose father was killed by an IRA man when the...
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ARTICLES
  • Love and War in 1919 Russia
  • PW Talks with James Meek
  • Collisions with Strangeness: James Meek
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