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Borderline
Plantons le décor, voulez-vous, et transportons-nous sur la plage d'une petite ville balnéaire du sud de l'Angleterre. Un chien s'ébroue, se jouant de l'écume, court vers son maître et lui tend sa trouvaille : une main. La main d'un homme, Henry, laissé quelques pas plus loin, assassiné d'un coup de poignard. Henry était un vagabond, que toute la ville connaissait. Mais John, l'inspecteur chargé de résoudre cette affaire, comprendra bien vite que tout le monde croyait connaître Henry. Cette enquête, où tragédie et comédie s'emmêlent, ne sera donc pas celle d'un homme à la recherche d'un meurtrier, mais celle d'un homme cherchant à donner du sens à un monde qui n'est qu'illusions. .Borderline est son premier roman traduit en français.
400 pages, Hardcover
Published January 3, 2008
About the author
Jonathan Buckley
76 books53 followersJonathan Buckley was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English Literature at Sussex University, where he stayed on to take an MA. From there he moved to King’s College, London, where he researched the work of the Scottish poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. After working as a university tutor, stage hand, maker of theatrical sets and props, bookshop manager, decorator and builder, he was commissioned in 1987 to write the Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.
He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.
His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.
From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.
He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.
His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.
From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.
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