James Meek Libros

The book delves into the privatization of essential British services and infrastructure over the past thirty years, revealing the human impact of these changes. Through compelling portraits and narratives, it illustrates how public assets have been transferred to private owners, leading to rising costs for consumers while the new owners profit. Meek's urgent and poignant exploration serves as a critical examination of the nation's transformation, appealing to those interested in social and economic issues.

The anatomy of a nation: the search for the soul of post-Brexit Britain

Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russian Revolution, The People’s Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless regiment, and a mystical separatist Christian sect. When a mysterious, charismatic stranger trudges into their snowy village with a frighteningly outlandish story to tell, its balance is shaken to the core.

The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love

The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.

From the bestselling author of The People's Act of Love

Reality-show producer and habitual liar Ritchie Shepherd can't stand his sister Bec's relentless honesty, while Bec helps a gene-therapy researcher build a family of his own, even as her ex-fiancé Val, a tabloid editor, plots to destroy Bec by exposing people close to her

From the prize-winning author of The People's Act of Love and We Are Now Beginning Our Descent