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Quercus Publishing The Road
Book SynopsisBy the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative - illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary vividness for which he has become known. In addition to the eleven stories, this volume includes the complete text of ''The Hell of Treblinka'', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Beautifully illuminated by Robert Chandler''s introductions and endnotes, with photographs from the family archive, and an Afterword by Grossman''s stepson, Fyodor Guber.Trade Review'Grossman deserves a special, if not revered, place as a recorder of some of the worst excesses of the 20th century - indeed, of any century. A casual reader may be lured into thinking this to be a collection of fictional short stories depicting the hardships and privations of Soviet life. But on page 126 comes an abrupt and horrifying awakening … 'The Hell of Treblinka' ... nothing prepares us for the force of Grossman's description; his detailed, harrowing reconstruction of what happened' Scotsman. * Scotsman *a richness and clarity to a fascinating period and define Grossman as one of the great literary figures of the last century' Good Book Guide. * Good Book Guide *''Grossman's trajectory is clear in his short fiction and essays: early essays explore the ardent patriotism that fired Russia; later ones such as the title story, 'The Road', an allegory of a beaten mule pulling a munitions train that offers a bitter reflection on life, hint at dangerous disillusionment ... The Road is an excellent introduction to Grossman's hauntingly powerful fiction and reportage' James Urquhart, Financial Times. * Financial Times *...his vivid dispatches, some newly translated for this superb collection, retain a freshness that only the finest journalism can. The 11 short stories also collected here show a writer of infinite variety, and the bulk of them will enhance his reputation ... his is a powerful voice of conscience' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *''This superbly edited compendium of his writing, containing short stories, journalism and letters to his dead mother, allows us to access the nature and success of his enterprise. Through its lucid notes and essays it also serves as a first-class companion to the terrible history of mid-20th-century central Europe.' Jewish Chronicle. * Jewish Chronicle *... it has become accepted that Vasily Grossman was one of the giants of 20th Century literature. This anthology of his stories and journalism, brilliantly translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, charts his growing disillusionment with communism as well as his frontline role in the war against the Nazis' Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *''The collection has humour, pathos, satire and tragedy. Grossman's superlative ability is to relay through sparse writing the fear, anxiety and compassion of those he writes of. This is an utterly absorbing, compassionate and necessary collection and once read will linger and cause true reflection, as the best writing ought.' Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. * Journal of the Law Society of Scotland *''From satire to comedy and tragedy this is a fantastic collection translated into English for the first time. Including Stalin's purges and the Holocaust, these short stories and articles are accompanied by introductions that put Grossman's life into context' Daily Express. * Daily Express *''For today's reader, Grossman's work excavates from the Soviet rubble vital artefacts of the bitter, the tragic, the self-sacrificing, the indomitable and, ultimately, the inspiring' Ken Kalfus, International Herald Tribune. * International Herald Tribune *''Grossman's stories are so affecting partly because they look so unflinchingly at human nature, combining a journalist's eye with a fascination for humanity enduring under near-intolerable circumstances.' Metro. * Metro *No one knew better than Grossman what people are capable of. These stories and essays are one of the cultural monuments of the 20th century' David Herman, New Statesman. * New Statesman *''Readers familiar with his novels will be surprised by his short fiction. They show a writer of infinite variety' Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *The mystery of how to improve the human condition continued to fascinate him and is profoundly reflected in Grossman's superb writings - an enduring memorial to the man' Geoffrey Goodman, Tribune. * Tribune *The only subject and the only hope is humanity' Brian Morton, Scottish Sunday Herald. * Scottish Sunday Herald *''The unstinting championing of ordinary human emotion is what strikes hardest in Grossman's style ... Grossman manages to find human simplicity in his characters at the very apex of pain and disaster' Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph *This collection of short fiction and essays from the remarkable and criminally under-read Soviet writer includes haunting short stories and his excoriating wartime exposé of the Treblinka death camp' Benjamin Evans, Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *Table of ContentsPart One - The 1930s: Introduction; In the Town of Berdichev; A Small Life; A Young Woman and an Old Woman. Part Two - The War, The Shoah: Introduction; The Old Man; The Old Teacher; The Hell of Treblinka; The Sistine Madonna. Part Three - Late Stories: Introduction; The Elk; Mama; Living Space; The Road; The Dog; In Kislovodsk. Part Four - Three Letters: Introduction; Letter 1950; Letter 1961. Part Five - Eternal Rest: Introduction; Eternal Rest. Appendices: Grossman and Treblinka; Natalya Khayutina and the Yezhovs; Afterword by Fyodor Guber; Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Translator's acknowledgements; About the author; About the translators.
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Quercus Publishing The Invisible Ones
Book SynopsisSet in the 1980s in rural southern England, this is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.Trade Review'A marvellously atmospheric piece of writing' Financial Times. * Financial Times *'A beautifully crafted novel with skilful characterisation and a plot which twists and turns ... this story of loss, deceit and family tragedy lingers long after you've finished the book' Daily Express. * Daily Express *'Chilling' Daily Express. * Daily Express *'Penney has a real gift for storytelling and this tale [...] is pretty compelling from the beginning' Glasgow Sunday Herald. * Glasgow Sunday Herald *'a story teller on top of her game' Independent. * Independent *'Highly impressive thriller ... a terrific novel with much disturbing wisdom amid the thrills' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest. * Reader's Digest *'A supreme story-teller on top form' The Times. * The Times *
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Quercus Publishing The Gardener
Book Synopsis''Under the bracken, under the soil, under the forest, under the water, the garden''s history is there. It needs an ardent lover to find it.'' Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in garden history, and uprooted her three children to take a job as head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan at Maddon Park in Oxfordshire. Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. They have little in common except a passion for Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional roller coaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but - still raw from divorce, anxious about the children and frightened of entanglement - she is less sure of what is right for her.Trade Review'Prue Leith writes about gardens with a knowledge born of real love for the subject. Those who enjoy gardening and romance will find it the ideal novel to take on holiday' Elizabeth Jane Howard. * Elizabeth Jane Howard *'This is an engaging and well-crafted tale' Sue MacGregor. * Sue MacGregor *
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Quercus Publishing Tangled Lives
Book SynopsisAnnie Delancey is happily married with three grown children. But she guards a secret. Aged eighteen she had a baby boy, and gave him up for adoption. Out of the blue, she receives an official-looking letter from Social Services. Her son wants to make contact. As the son she has never known comes back into her life, his presence begins to expose the cracks in the family that Annie now has to try, desperately, to hold together.
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Quercus Publishing Child Wonder
Book SynopsisA glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties.Trade Review'[An] intricately worked novel, as rich in detail and implication as it is classical in construction and stylistic restraint' Paul Binding, Independent. * Independent *'A gloriously intelligent novel that is so rewarding, funny, sad and human that the only advice to be given is to read it' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. * Irish Times *'The kind of novel that never leaves you' Kristin Ewins, Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Quercus Publishing Sanctuary Line
Book SynopsisA novel of family legacies, love and betrayal...Trade Review'Urquhart handles the layers of narrative with lyrical aplomb' Susan Elderkin, Financial Times. * Financial Times *'A delicate work of rare beauty' Lucy Popescu, Independent. * Independent *'Urquhart's style is reminiscent of that of the Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson' Mary Morrissey, Irish Times. * Irish Times *'Emotional and atmospheric' The Lady. * Lady *'Urquhart's writing is poetic, in the sense that it is beautifully compact and restrained when describing the most powerful emotions' The Times. * The Times *'Urquhart's prose is lovingly and skilfully constructed ... Her sparse plot dances and weaves like a butterfly' Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post *
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Quercus Publishing The Folded Earth
Book SynopsisA woman struggles with her past, as she sees her familiar world being swept away by India's brutal modernity.Trade Review'A vivid evocation of north India. Roy conjures up striking images with the lightest of touches' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler. * Tatler *'Roy creates some wonderful, often quite eccentric characters. You can always tell when this is done to perfection when even the smallest bit part characters seem to come to life with a few brief idiosyncrasies' Bookbag. * Bookbag *'Anuradha Roy is a formidable novelist: reading her elegiac but comic narrative lifts the spirit and brightens the day' Bookgroup Info. * Bookgroup Info *'Her prose is tight with life' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *'Fresh and appetizing . . . I was captivated' Tabish Khair, Independent. * Independent *'Graceful and compassionate ... written in prose that has the precision and radiance of poetry' Neel Mukherjee. * Neel Mukherjee *'truly beautiful book. It makes you want to put the clocks back and move to India' Red Online. * Red Online *'Tender and comical' Kate Saunders, Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *Roy is particularly adept at mining the emotional intricacies of the relationship between Maya and Diwan Sahib, which also serves to symbolize India's uneasy passage from tradition to modernity' New York Times. * New York Times *''a terrific creation, cantankerous and capricious' Irish Times. * Irish Times *
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Quercus Publishing The Sorrow of Angels
Book SynopsisIt is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bárður. Three weeks, but already Bárður''s ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the wide open fjords he is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece; in extraordinarily powerful language it brings the struggle between man and nature tangibly to life. It is the second novel in Stefánsson''s epic and elemental trilogy, though all can be read independently.Trade Review'A spellbinding novel, beautifully written in a lyrical, poetic style' Jacqui Patience, Shadow Independent Foreign Fiction Prize judge. * Jacqui Patience, Shadow Independent Foreign Fiction Prize judge *'A wonderful, exceptional writer ... a timeless storyteller' Carsten Jensen. * Carsten Jensen *'Captivating ... the author eloquently harnesses an overwhelming sense of enormity and vastness ... this is a story of life, love and those left behind. It is a tale punctuated by the stark spectrum of human foibles, but equally one of strength, victory and selflessness in the face of adversity. The dizzying climax will leave you breathless' Susan Swarbrick, Glasgow Herald. * Glasgow Herald *'Recalls a Nordic version of one of Cormac McCarthy's journeys ... Devour this book with a hot drink in a warm room' Boyd Tonkin, Independent. * Independent *
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Seagull Books London Ltd Where the Bird Disappeared
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Seagull Books London Ltd August
Book SynopsisAugust is Christa Wolf’s last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Jew Car
Book SynopsisEach story presents a snapshot of a personal and historical turning point in the life of the narrator, beginning with childhood anti-Semitism and moving to a youthful embrace—and then an ultimate rejection—of Nazi ideology.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Village Indian
Book SynopsisPart Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Fire Above the Mountain Below
Book SynopsisReinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to language, but also difficult to pin down in terms of any genre. Weaving together elements of crime story, Cold War espionage, family tragedy, and a dystopian future, he creates a tapestry of fragile humanity and menacing inhumanity. The investigation of a series of gruesome killings takes a detective inspector into explorations of a secret intelligence programme in former East Germany and the role of a family with a tragic history. The more is uncovered, the more disorienting it becomes, and the reader is drawn into a complex web of discovery and suppression. Table of ContentsN
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Seagull Books London Ltd We Defy Augury
Book SynopsisWe defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new bookand the latest chapter in her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time. Surely one of the most delightful, in its exposure of the seams of her extraordinary craft, We Defy Augury finds the reader among familiar faces. In these pages we encounter Eve, the indomitable mother; Jacques Derrida, the faithful friend; children, neighbors; and always the literary forebears: Montaigne, Diderot, Proust, and, in one moving passage, Erich Maria Remarque. We Defy Augury moves easily from Cixous's Algerian childhood, to Bacharach in the Rhineland, to, eerily, the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center, in the year 2000. In one of the most astonishing passages in this tour-de-force performance of the art of digression, Cixous proclaims: My books are free in their mTable of ContentsN
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Seagull Books London Ltd A Land Like You
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Each page of this rich novel drips with scintillating descriptions of every food prepared and tasted by its characters, as well as every scent that wafts through the dank Cairo alleys and the nearby countryside. From the dingy hovels of the city’s poorest residents to the glittering palaces of the wealthy international aristocracy, A Land Like You exists in visual and auditory splendor." * Foreword Reviews *"A beautiful and immersive novel, plunging readers headlong into Egypt’s unique history and extraordinary variety of cultures. . . . This is a riveting novel—a must-read. Not only is it a story of great beauty and lyricism, but also it has been superbly translated from French into English by Joyce Zonana, so that the essence of meaning—both literal and esthetic — reaches the reader in all its power." * Jewish Book Council *"Chronicling the fate of Egypt’s Jews, Zonana’s vibrant yet nuanced translation renders A Land Like You a gorgeous feast for the senses and the spirit." * World Literature Today *"A wonderful and magical love story that brings to life an Egypt very few of us will recognize. Filled with amazing characters and glorious details of their lives and loves readers will be delighted by what they discover within the book’s pages." * BlogCritics *"In this breathtaking mixed-genre fictionalized history and fantastical tale, Tobie Nathan’s A Land Like You offers a poignant account of the last five decades of Cairo’s Jewish community prior to its calamitous departure for other lands in the 1950s. Through a cornucopia of sensuous allusions to aromas, dishes, amulets, prayers, saints’ tombs, songs, dances, films, and witty colloquialisms, the reader becomes a privileged witness to an Egypt characterized by an intimate cultural continuum between Jews and their neighboring Muslims. In this dazzling novel French stands in, as it were, for Arabic, while also making tangible to the reader the linguistic syncretism as shaped in the wake of imperialism and postcolonial displacements— all rendered in Joyce Zonana’s masterful translation." * Ella Shohat, author of 'Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices' *"Set in the first half of the twentieth century, Tobie Nathan’s A Land Like You tells an interesting, poignant, and humorous generational tale of a family in Cairo’s fabled Jewish Quarter. Through the odysseys of his characters, Nathan, in his novel expressively rendered into English by Joyce Zonana, mirrors a once-thriving cosmopolitan nation ruled by a monarch and under British occupation." * Alaa Al Aswany, author of 'The Yacoubian Building and The Automobile Club of Egypt' *"In A Land Like You, we see, sense, and are moved by the living, breathing, experience of an Egyptian love story which is also a love song to Egypt. We are dazzled by evocative descriptions of singing, dancing, feasting, and joking that are the hallmarks of Egyptian culture, a culture Jews, Muslims, Christians, and others who have grown up around it, can’t fail to acknowledge as distinctly Egyptian. Nathan, and Zonana along with him, evoke the lush, sensual, and mystical/magical world and invite the reader to dream." * Sephardic Horizons *Table of Contents192519421952
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Hangmans House
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for the Hungarian edition: “A bildungsroman, an account of an age, and a complex, richly woven tale of a family that verges on cruelty, is almost spine-chilling. It's about how this family survived, or failed to, those decades in that dreariness, restriction, total subjection.” * Székelyföld *Table of ContentsN
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Seagull Books London Ltd Mr Zeds Reflections
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Enzensberger’s Mr. Zed, part teacher and part wisecracker, represents a plea for reasonableness, the deflation of extremes, the admission of folly, and a return to the middle path. With humor, variety, nimble turns, and the terse cadences of his prose, Enzensberger has created a thoughtful entertainment that gleefully grates against the headlines and antagonisms of our global news and media culture —as well as against the cultivation of grievances.” * On the Seawall *“Enzensberger is a confident old master who does this sort of thing very well, and Mr. Zed’s Reflections is very entertaining. Along the way, Enzensberger manages also to be consistently—if very gently—thought-provoking, making for an eminently worthwhile read that is also very good fun.” * Complete Review *Table of ContentsMr. Zed's Reflections or Breadcrumbs He Dropped, Gathered Up by His Listeners
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Seagull Books London Ltd Death in Persia
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Seagull Books London Ltd Dark Company
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Dark Company2. The Note3. On the Night Trains4. The Garden5. Glendenning6. Katharina7. Zero Forty8. The Mistake9. It’s Not Friday Yet10. The Key
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Cold Centre
Book SynopsisEast Germany. The last days of the Wall. A man receives a startling call from his ex-wife, who's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Quickly returning to the city, he tries to reconstruct the events of a few days so many years ago, and he revisits and questions his own memories of working in the chilling cold centre'the air-conditioning plant for the East German Communist Party newspaper. Did she come in contact with a contaminated truck from the Ukraine? Was he a cog at the heart of the system, failing to prevent a tragic accident? Can he find out what happened before it's too late? He soon begins to lose control over his days in Berlin, beginning a desperate search for orientation over a fracture in his own lifeone he has never gotten over. Written in Inka Parei's characteristically precise prose, The Cold Centre is a timely reminder of how we react to accidentsnuclear and otherwiseand a bleakly realistic description of East Berlin before the Wall fell. Its tight and dizzying structure keeps readers on the edge of their seats as the narrator tries to solve his mystery.Table of ContentsImprint The Cold Centre
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brimming with fascinating and eccentric characters, comical situations, and an exceedingly original writing style, Cantieni’s deeply poignant work artfully and empathetically explores being different and the problems of integration." * World Literature Today *Table of ContentsEncyclopaedia of Good Reasons Epilogue
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Dark Ship
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsProloguePart OnePart TwoPart ThreePart FourPart Five
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Seagull Books London Ltd Kongs Finest Hour
Book SynopsisIn a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside within us? As we tread confidently, is this where the earth opens up beneath us? In Kong's Finest Hour, Alexander Kluge explores anew the accessible spaces where Kong dwells within us and in our million-year-old past. The more than two hundred stories contained in this volume form a chronicle of connections that together survey these spaces using diverse perspectives. These include stories about the folds of Kong's nose, the voice of the author's mother, the poet Heinrich von Kleist and Jack the Ripper, the indestructability of the political, and the supercontinent Pangaea that once unified the earth. Dissolving theory into storytelling has been Kluge's lifelong pursuit, and this magnificent collection tells stories of people as well of things. First in a series of Kluge's Chronicles forthcoming from Seagull Books, Kong's Finest Hour will delight those familiar with his writing as well as introduce readers to the brilliance of one of Germany's greatest living writers. Trade Review“More than a few of Kluge’s many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest.”—Susan Sontag * Praise for Alexander Kluge *Table of Contents1. Wild Reliability2. “The voice of love ones, echoes in my heart”3. A Book of the Dead for Something I Love4. The Folds of Kong’s Nose, As Distinctive as Fingerprints. The Plebian Report.5. The Indestructibility of the Political6. I, Myself7. The Chronicles of Pangaea
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Seagull Books London Ltd Shadow of Things to Come
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Seagull Books London Ltd Postcard from London
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary’s most popular twentieth-century writers. Table of ContentsAbandoned Afternoon Sleeper Autobiography Cabana Mosquitoes A Character out of Chekhov A Corner of the Table The Day of Glory A Dream Fabulya’s Wives Furniture at Night God A Grand Old Cafe In a Drafty Staircase In Place of a Foreword Marlene Dietrich Message The Morning of the Journey The Night Before the Journey On a Streetcar The Original Ottlik Pebble Postcard from London Snotty Ghost The Sweet Smell of Success A Vestibule The Veteran A Visit with Father A Visit with Mother A Wedding What Was Left Women’s Locker Room Words About an Uncle
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Seagull Books London Ltd Boat Number Five
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslator’s NoteBoat Number Five
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Seagull Books London Ltd Killing Happiness
Book SynopsisGerman author Friedrich Ani combines deep sorrow, human darkness, and breath-taking tension in his latest crime novel. Happiness is extinguished completely one cold November night when eleven-year-old Lennard Grabbe fails to return home. Thirty-four days later, he is found to have been murdered, and former inspector Jakob Franck, the protagonist of Friedrich Ani's previous novel The Nameless Day, is entrusted with delivering the most horrible news any parent could ever dream of, setting off a chain reaction of grief among family and friends. As the special task force is unable to make any progress in the case and the family is unable to deal with the loss, Franckdriven by the need to bring them clarity but also by the painful memories of all the unsolved murder cases from when he was still on active dutyburies himself in witness statements and reports up to the point of exhaustion. He spends hours at the crime scene and employs his special technique of thought sensitivity, an abTrade Review“Ani’s elegantly written crime novel is characterized by psychological intensity and dark melancholy.” * Sächsische Zeitung (praise for the original German edition) *Table of ContentsForeword by Anne CleevesKilling Happiness
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Seagull Books London Ltd Monsters Like Us
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This musicality, together with the compelling narrative, makes Monsters Like Us a novel to be read and re-read; one discovers different layers of meaning on revisiting the text. Though pervaded by melancholy, it offers some hope for a better future, at least in the figure of Ruth. Far from being the 'dummy-doll' of her childhood, she ultimately finds the strength to rebel and stand up for herself." * Litro Magazine *"A very striking novel about the abuse of power." * The Modern Novel *Table of ContentsMoonsterI. RuthII. ViktorIII. Voitto
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Seagull Books London Ltd Blumenberg
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dreamy and bewitching...Lewitscharoff definitely goes her own ways; for those willing to follow, it's a heady, interesting experience." * Complete Review * "Filled with a likable cast of characters pulled along by the flowing, poetic prose." * World Literature Today *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Tripwire
Book SynopsisIt's time to head north and work out who is trying to find him and why._________Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Tripwire is 3rd in the series.And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead!Trade ReviewA slickly effective thriller which confirms Child's ability to keep the reader guessing - and sweating * The Times *A fast-moving, violent and gripping mystery with a very bad baddie, and a tough, pragmatic hero in Jack Reacher * Daily Telegraph *Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire. It's a tightly-drawn and swift thriller that gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be -- Michael ConnellyEstablishes Child in the premier division.. Taut, with more than a touch of sweet romance, this is dangerously compulsive, so be warned - don't start it at bedtime or you'll be up all night * Manchester Evening News *Good thrillers exist in a class of their own. The point of such a book is total escape and Tripwire fills the bill... includes a bang-up finale which makes the reader sit back and gasp with both wonder and understanding * Denver Post *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Without Fail
Book Synopsis'Lee Child's protagonist, Jack Reacher, is a hero in the Dirty Harry style, a man who lives by his own principles .Trade ReviewLee Child writes edgy American thrillers to rival the likes of Thomas Harris and John Grisham * Daily Mirror *Sixth in seriously good series featuring Jack Reacher...Exciting, absorbing and intriguing, with hero big and bold enough to handle the percussive action * Literary Review *For most fans of Lee Child the greatest draw is his military police tough guy Jack Reacher...To be fair, Reacher is more of a thinking girl's beefcake - I can see Russell Crowe already angling for the movie part * The Times *Jack Reacher is a most magnetic creation, tough, cool and ultimately moral * Irish Independent *Lee Child's protagonist, Jack Reacher, is a hero in the Dirty Harry style, a man who lives by his own principles...Produces a surprising twist when it's least expected * Sunday Telegraph *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Persuader
Book SynopsisHas Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?_________Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Persuader is seventh in the series.And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead!Trade ReviewBallsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted * Daily Mirror *The blend of dialogue, atmosphere, action and plot will grip readers from the first page and further cement Lee Child's reputation as a world-class thriller writer...This is everything a thriller should be * Crimetime *One of the best writers in this genre...Reacher is in top form * Sunday Telegraph *Scrupulously structured...A thrilling and reputable read * Literary Review *The seventh novel in the best-selling Jack Reacher series. PERSUADER is another gripping thriller * OK! Magazine *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The First Apostle
Book SynopsisJames Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War . Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.Trade ReviewUtterly spellbinding. The plot is stunning and breathtaking and leaves you racing to the end.... A truly amazing book. If you read nothing else this year, you must get hold of this * Euro Crime *Exciting... fast paced and filled with non-stop action * Genre Go Round Reviews *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Bryant May and the Memory of Blood
Book SynopsisThe defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario''s young son was definitely not the best way to end the play''s first night party. And the crime scene itself was most unusual: a locked bedroom, with no sign of forced entry, no prints or traces of blood, just a sinister, life-size puppet of Mr Punch lying on the floor...Everyone at the party - from the dodgy producer and rakish male lead to the dour set designer and the assistant stage manager (the wild daughter of a prominent civil servant) - is a suspect. It''s a perfect case for Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit but the Home Office, wary of the PCU''s eccentric methods and intensely aware of the potential political embarrassment, wants them off the investigation. The elderly detectives are not so easily deterred, however. Delving into the history of London theatre and the gruesome origins of ''Punch and Judy'', they uncover a maniacal killer is at work - one who must be caught before it''s curTrade ReviewExcellent... plotted with wit and intelligence * THE TIMES *A sense of the macabre combined with laugh-out-loud moments and eccentric characters are set against a lovingly realised London backdrop * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Charming and quirky... a pleasurably intelligent read * FINANCIAL TIMES *
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