Richard Powers

Luminous underwater encounters

This is a novel filled with love for the ocean and everything in it, plus all its unknowns and mysteries and magic. It is, like so many of other Powers novels, also a clarion call to conservation. The novel is...

Luminous

This is one of those rare books which keeps you reading in a state of enchantment and awe.   Theo Bryne is an astrobiologist and a widower, with a gifted but grief-stricken 9-year old, Robin (named for his parents’ favourite...