Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Annie Proulx (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 736pp h240mm x w159mm 1080g ISBN13: 9780007232000 ISBN13: 978-0-00-723200-0 ISBN10: 0007232004 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years - their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions; the revenge of rivals; accidents; pestilence; Indian attacks; and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid - in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope - that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Annie Proulx (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
11 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 736pp h197mm x w130mm 500g ISBN13: 9780007232017 ISBN13: 978-0-00-723201-7 ISBN10: 0007232012 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years - their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions; the revenge of rivals; accidents; pestilence; Indian attacks; and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid - in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope - that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 333g ISBN13: 9781783782673 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-267-3 ISBN10: 1783782676 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Love Gwendoline Riley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 243g ISBN13: 9781783783182 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-318-2 ISBN10: 1783783184 x Description: Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her selfinvolved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold Margaret Atwood (Author) Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare 4
Edition:
Imprint:
Hogarth
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h222mm x w144mm x s30mm 453g ISBN13: 9781781090220 ISBN13: 978-1-78109-022-0 ISBN10: 178109022X x Description: "This book was selected as a Book of the Year." (Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine). 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's
novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold Margaret Atwood (Author) Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780099594024 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959402-4 ISBN10: 0099594021 x Description: " Selected as a Book of the Year." (Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine). 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Deaths Emma Flint (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 552g ISBN13: 9781509826575 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2657-5 ISBN10: 1509826572 x Description: Bailey's Women Prize for Fiction 2017 Longlist It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery. Noting Ruth's perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation. Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment, tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same. But the longer he spends watching Ruth, the more he learns about the darker workings of the police and the press. Soon, Pete begins to doubt everything he thought he knew. Ruth Malone is enthralling, challenging and secretive - is she really capable of murder? Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths by Emma Flint is a gripping debut novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Deaths Emma Flint (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781509826582 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2658-2 ISBN10: 1509826580 x Description: It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery. Noting Ruth's perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient
conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation. Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment, tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same. But the longer he spends watching Ruth, the more he learns about the darker workings of the police and the press. Soon, Pete begins to doubt everything he thought he knew. Ruth Malone is enthralling, challenging and secretive - is she really capable of murder? Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Midwinter Fiona Melrose (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corsair
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h241mm x w156mm x s26mm 468g ISBN13: 9781472151780 ISBN13: 978-1-4721-5178-0 ISBN10: 147215178X x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 'Finely judged writing like this comes from a place of instinct, and it marks Melrose out as someone to watch ...Midwinter is a great success' Melissa Harrison, Guardian Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are Suffolk farmers, living together on land their family has worked for generations. But they are haunted there by a past they have long refused to confront: the death of Cecelia, beloved wife and mother, when Vale was just a child. Both men have carried her loss, unspoken. Until now. With the onset of a mauling winter, something between them snaps. While Vale makes increasingly desperate decisions, Landyn retreats, finding solace in the land, his animals - and a vixen who haunts the farm and seems to bring with her both comfort and protection. Tender and lyrical, alive to language and nature, Midwinter is a novel about guilt, blame, lost opportunities and, ultimately, it is a story about love and the lengths we will go to find our way home. Longlisted for the New Angle Prize 2017 'Melrose elegantly weaves narratives detailing the men's internal tumult with lush descriptions of their natural surroundings ...A moving story about the cruelty of chance, modern masculinity and the transformative power of the bonds between men' Financial Times 'I have rarely read a narrative voice as distinctive as Landyn's, and the loving depiction of regional English working-class masculinity is unusual and timely . ..This is certainly not a light-hearted book, but it offers the true consolation of some very good writing' Sarah Moss, TLS 'A penetrating study of grief and guilt' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Midwinter Fiona Melrose (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corsair
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9781472151803 ISBN13: 978-1-4721-5180-3 ISBN10: 1472151801 x Description: 'Finely judged writing like this comes from a place of instinct, and it marks Melrose out as someone to watch ...Midwinter is a great success' Melissa Harrison, Guardian Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are Suffolk farmers, living together on land their family has worked for generations. But they are haunted there by a past they have long refused to confront: the death of Cecelia, beloved wife and mother, when Vale was just a child. Both men have carried her loss, unspoken. Until now. With the onset of a mauling winter, something between them snaps. While Vale makes increasingly desperate decisions, Landyn retreats, finding solace in the land, his animals - and a vixen who haunts the farm and seems to bring with her both comfort and protection. Tender and lyrical, alive to language and nature, Midwinter is a novel about guilt, blame, lost opportunities and, ultimately, it is a story about love and the lengths we will go to find our way home. 'Melrose elegantly weaves narratives detailing the men's internal tumult with lush descriptions of their natural surroundings ...A moving story about the cruelty of chance, modern masculinity and the transformative power of the bonds between men' Financial Times 'I have rarely read a narrative voice as distinctive as Landyn's, and the loving depiction of regional English working-class masculinity is unusual and timely . ..This is certainly not a light-hearted book, but it offers the true consolation of some very good writing' Sarah Moss, TLS 'A penetrating study of grief and guilt' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stay with Me Ayobami Adebayo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h220mm x w144mm x s29mm 440g ISBN13: 9781782119463 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-946-3 ISBN10: 1782119469 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love ...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything - arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, dances with prophets, appeals to God. But when her in-laws insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 80s Nigeria, Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stay with Me Ayobami Adebayo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside/Ireland
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h214mm x w135mm x s22mm 320g ISBN13: 9781782119586 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-958-6 ISBN10: 1782119582 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love ...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything - arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, dances with prophets, appeals to God. But when her in-laws insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 80s Nigeria, Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dark Circle Linda Grant (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h164mm x w243mm x s33mm 558g ISBN13: 9780349006758 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00675-8 ISBN10: 034900675X x Description: The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers, a car salesman, a young university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.
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The Dark Circle Linda Grant (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780349006789 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00678-9 ISBN10: 0349006784 x Description: The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers, a car salesman, a young university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h222mm x w144mm x s38mm 575g Hardback ISBN13: 9781781255445 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-544-5 ISBN10: 178125544X x Description: THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 COSTA NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2017 #1 Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade' Sunday Times London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, where she hopes fresh air and open space will provide the refuge they need. When they take lodgings in Colchester, rumours reach them from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming human lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, is immediately enthralled, convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a previously undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar. Like Cora, Will is deeply suspicious of the rumours, but he thinks they are founded on moral panic, a flight from real faith. As he tries to calm his parishioners, he and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart, eventually changing each other's lives in ways entirely unexpected. Told with exquisite grace and intelligence, this novel is most of all a celebration of love, and the many different guises it can take. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Profile Books Ltd
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781781255452 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-545-2 ISBN10: 1781255458 x Description: THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION #1 BESTSELLING FICTION HARDBACK CHRISTMAS 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 COSTA NOVEL AWARD OVER 100,000 HARDBACKS SOLD London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. On arrival,
rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for superstition, is enthralled, convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith. As he tries to calm his parishioners, Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both. The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love, and the many different shapes it can take. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9781784700201 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-020-1 ISBN10: 1784700207 x Description: This is the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late..."This is a perfect novel." (Observer). "The Gustav Sonata is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery." (Ian McEwan). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
19 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s26mm 395g ISBN13: 9781784740030 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-003-0 ISBN10: 1784740039 x Description: This book was short-listed for the Costa Book Award. It is the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's childhood is spent in lonely isolation, his only toy a tin train with painted passengers staring blankly from the carriage windows. As time goes on, an intense friendship with a boy of his own age, Anton Zwiebel, begins to define Gustav's life. Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined. Fierce, astringent, profoundly tender, Rose Tremain's beautifully orchestrated novel asks the question, what does it do to a person, or to a country, to pursue an eternal quest for neutrality, and self-mastery, while all life's hopes and passions continually press upon the borders and beat upon the gate. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 552g ISBN13: 9780571327850 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32785-0 ISBN10: 0571327850
x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016. From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for. The young girl has a troubling past of her own. This is her story and their story. The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion. It is about innocence and the loss of it. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, it is a celebration of the dark and the light in love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780571327881 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32788-1 ISBN10: 0571327885 x Description: This book is from the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for. The young girl has a troubling past of her own. This is her story and their story. The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion. It is about innocence and the loss of it. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, it is a celebration of the dark and the light in love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: The Bailey's Prize Longlisted Novel Heather O'Neill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h241mm x w161mm x s35mm 654g ISBN13: 9781849163354 ISBN13: 978-1-84916-335-4 ISBN10: 1849163359 x Description: 'Joyful, funny and vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel 'The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better ...I began underlining truths I had hungered for' Miranda July 'Makes me think of comets and live wires ...raises goosebumps' Helen Oyeyemi 'A fairytale laced with gunpowder' Kelly Link The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned in an orphanage where they were fated to meet. Here, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of their own, shielding the spark of their curiosity from those whose jealousy will eventually tear them apart. When they meet again, each will have changed, having struggled through the Depression, through what they have done to fill the absence of the other. But their childhood vision remains - a dream to storm the world, a spectacle, an extravaganza that will lift them out of the gutter and onto a glittering stage. Heather O'Neill's pyrotechnical imagination and language are like no other. In this she has crafted a dazzling circus of a novel that takes us from the underbellies of war-time Montreal and Prohibition New York, to a theatre of magic where anything is possible - where an orphan girl can rule the world, and a ruined innocence can be redeemed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: The Bailey's Prize Longlisted Novel Heather O'Neill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h233mm x w155mm x s29mm 518g ISBN13: 9781849163361 ISBN13: 978-1-84916-336-1 ISBN10: 1849163367 x Description: 'Joyful, funny and vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel 'The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better ...I began underlining truths I had hungered for' Miranda July 'Makes me think of comets and live wires ...raises goosebumps' Helen Oyeyemi 'A fairytale laced with gunpowder' Kelly Link The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned in an orphanage where they were fated to meet. Here, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of their own, shielding the spark of their curiosity from those whose jealousy will eventually tear them apart. When they meet again, each will have changed, having struggled through the Depression, through what they have done to fill the absence of the other. But their childhood vision remains - a dream to storm the world, a spectacle, an extravaganza that will lift them out of the gutter and onto a glittering stage. Heather O'Neill's pyrotechnical imagination and language are like no other. In this she has crafted a dazzling circus of a novel that takes us from the underbellies of war-time Montreal and Prohibition New York, to a theatre of magic where anything is possible - where an orphan girl can rule the world, and a ruined innocence can be redeemed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mare Mary Gaitskill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h240mm x w162mm x s39mm 726g Hardback ISBN13: 9781781255933 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-593-3 ISBN10: 1781255938 x Description: Ginger is in her forties and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own, she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child from a previous marriage and is ten years older than her, so doesn't share her longing to be a parent at any cost. As a compromise, they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer, and so one hot July day eleven year old Velveteen Vargas, a Dominican girl from one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods, arrives in their lives, and Ginger is instantly besotted. Bemused by her gentle middle-aged hosts, but deeply intuitive in the way of clever children, Velvet quickly senses the longing behind Ginger's rapturous attention. While Velvet returns her affection, she finds the intensity of it bewildering. Velvet's own passions are more excited by the stables nearby, where she discovers she has a natural talent for riding and a deep affinity with the damaged horses cared for there. But when Ginger begins to entertain fantasies of adopting her, things start to get complicated for everyone involved. This is a heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people, and the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mare Mary Gaitskill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781781255940 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-594-0 ISBN10: 1781255946 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Ginger is in her forties and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. When it becomes clear it's too late for her to have a baby of her own, she tries to persuade him to consider adoption, but he already has a child from a previous marriage and is ten years older than her, so doesn't share her longing to be a parent at any cost. As a compromise, they sign up to an organisation that sends poor inner-city kids to stay with country families for a few weeks in the summer, and so one hot July day eleven year old Velveteen Vargas, a Dominican girl from one of Brooklyn's toughest neighbourhoods, arrives in their lives, and Ginger is instantly besotted. Bemused by her gentle middle-aged hosts, but deeply intuitive in the way of clever children, Velvet quickly senses the longing behind Ginger's rapturous attention. While Velvet returns her affection, she finds the intensity of it bewildering. Velvet's own passions are more excited by the stables nearby, where she discovers she has a natural talent for riding and a deep affinity with the damaged horses cared for there. But when Ginger begins to entertain fantasies of adopting her, things start to get complicated for everyone involved. This is a heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people, and the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Power Naomi Alderman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780670919963 ISBN13: 978-0-670-91996-3 ISBN10: 0670919969 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Power Naomi Alderman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h204mm x w138mm x s32mm 433g ISBN13: 9780670919987 ISBN13: 978-0-670-91998-7 ISBN10: 0670919985 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sport of Kings: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 C. E. Morgan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 560pp h240mm x w159mm 860g ISBN13: 9780007313266 ISBN13: 978-0-00-731326-6 ISBN10: 0007313268 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two hands, and I am going to leave it all to you' Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred filly, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view. Entangled by fear, prejudice, and lust, the three tether their personal dreams of glory to the speed and grace of Hellsmouth. A spiralling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A vital new voice, C. E. Morgan has given life to a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself - a moral epic for our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sport of Kings: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 C. E. Morgan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 560pp h197mm x w130mm 270g ISBN13: 9780008173319 ISBN13: 978-0-00-817331-9 ISBN10: 0008173311 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two hands, and I am going to leave it all to you' Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred filly, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view. Entangled by fear, prejudice, and lust, the three tether their personal dreams of glory to the speed and grace of Hellsmouth. A spiralling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A vital new voice, C. E. Morgan has given life to a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself - a moral epic for our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h222mm x w144mm x s28mm 428g ISBN13: 9781784740337 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-033-7 ISBN10: 1784740330
x Description: Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And gradually the bickering and sniping softens into lively debate, and from there into memories shared. But could these sparks of connection ever transform into friendship? Or is it too late to expect these two to change? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9781784701376 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-137-6 ISBN10: 1784701378 x Description: Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship? Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done. "Wit, charm and playful energy...An insightful and fascinating diptych of two women, with the history of colonialism and slavery lurking in the background". (Herald). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________