Ned Beauman

Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, the fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious new novel from Ned Beauman....

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it....

Halyard, an Australian executive at a mining company and Karin Resaint, a Swiss environmental scientist—thrown together on a sea adventure to track down an very endangered yet horribly ugly fish, the Venomous Lumpsucker....

This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible....

With Glow, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation....