Ned Beauman

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues....

Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around it, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might be resurrected....

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....

South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves....

When you haven’t had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you’re living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn’t....

First-time novelist Ned Beauman spins out a dazzling narrative across decades and continents, weaving his manic fiction through the back alleys of history....

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....

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

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....

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