Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid Belinda Bauer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp 605g ISBN13: 9780593075531 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07553-1 ISBN10: 0593075536 EAN: 9780593075531 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . . 'Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think and it touches your heart. I loved it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go 'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing 'Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror 'Belinda Bauer's plots are never anything less than original and unsettling, and Snap is no exception.' Sunday Times 'Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.' Woman and Home 'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian 'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life . . . Kate Atkinson used to be the undisputed master of this sort of mixture of the serious, the exciting and the anarchic, but Bauer is now firmly in her class.' Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid Belinda Bauer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 457g ISBN13: 9780593075548 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07554-8 ISBN10: 0593075544 EAN: 9780593075548 x Description: 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . . 'Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think and it touches your heart. I loved it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go 'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing 'Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror 'Belinda Bauer's plots are never anything less than original and unsettling, and Snap is no exception.' Sunday Times 'Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.' Woman and Home 'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid Belinda Bauer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp 304g ISBN13: 9781784160852 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-085-2 ISBN10: 1784160857 EAN: 9781784160852 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID
SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . . 'Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think and it touches your heart. I loved it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go 'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing 'Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror 'Belinda Bauer's plots are never anything less than original and unsettling, and Snap is no exception.' Sunday Times 'Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.' Woman and Home 'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian 'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life . . . Kate Atkinson used to be the undisputed master of this sort of mixture of the serious, the exciting and the anarchic, but Bauer is now firmly in her class.' Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Milkman Anna Burns (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h216mm x w135mm x s25mm 503g ISBN13: 9780571342730 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34273-0 ISBN10: 0571342736 EAN: 9780571342730 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time. - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybeboyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Milkman Anna Burns (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 499g ISBN13: 9780571338740 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33874-0 ISBN10: 0571338747 EAN: 9780571338740 x Description: Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time. - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybeboyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sabrina Nick Drnaso (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h247mm x w205mm x s25mm 910g ISBN13: 9781783784905 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-490-5 ISBN10: 1783784903 EAN: 9781783784905 x Description: 'The best book - in any medium - I have read about our current moment ... A MASTERPIECE' Zadie Smith 'A masterpiece for our times' Observer WHERE IS SABRINA? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one of the most exciting and moving stories of recent years, Sabrina is a tale of modern mystery, anxiety, fringe paranoia and mainstream misinformation -- a book that tells the story of those left behind in the wake of tragedy, has important things to say about how we live now, and possesses the rare power to leave readers pulverised. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Washington Black: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Esi Edugyan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Trade binding 432pp h222mm x w144mm x s38mm 575g Hardback ISBN13: 9781846689598 ISBN13: 978-1-84668-959-8 ISBN10: 1846689597 EAN: 9781846689598
x Description: FROM THE MAN BOOKER AND ORANGE PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HALF BLOOD BLUES 'A masterpiece' Attica Locke 'High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists mark this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars ... broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel' Kirkus starred review When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose singleminded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Washington Black: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Esi Edugyan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h216mm x w135mm x s30mm 456g Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9781781258972 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-897-2 ISBN10: 178125897X EAN: 9781781258972 x Description: When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Our Mad and Furious City: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Guy Gunaratne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tinder Press
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h240mm x w162mm x s29mm 545g ISBN13: 9781472250193 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-5019-3 ISBN10: 1472250192 EAN: 9781472250193 x
Description: 'A vivid portrayal of a London rarely seen in literature' Paula Hawkins 'A novel that doesn't flinch, and demands change right now' Ali Smith, Guardian Books of the Summer 'This debut glitters' Evening Standard *Shortlisted for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize* For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grime. Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it. Provocative, raw, poetic yet tender, IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY marks the arrival of a major new talent in fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Our Mad and Furious City: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Guy Gunaratne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tinder Press
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h234mm x w154mm x s28mm 380g ISBN13: 9781472250209 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-5020-9 ISBN10: 1472250206 EAN: 9781472250209 x Description: Guy Gunaratne's blistering debut IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY is an unforgettable portrait of 48 hours on a London council estate, and will appeal to readers of THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES or THIS IS ENGLAND. 'What a voice. What an ear for language... a brave and original piece of work' Kit de Waal, author of MY NAME IS LEON 'A swaggering yet tender and polyphonic debut which capture the nuance of black experience on the streets of London' Observer For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grime. Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it. Provocative, raw, poetic yet tender, IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY announces the arrival of a major new talent in fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything Under Daisy Johnson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp 392g ISBN13: 9781910702345 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-34-5 ISBN10: 191070234X EAN: 9781910702345 x Description: **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** 'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' Lauren Groff Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that
was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water - a canal thief? - swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back. Daisy Johnson's debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mars Room Rachel Kushner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp 573g ISBN13: 9781910702673 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-67-3 ISBN10: 1910702676 EAN: 9781910702673 x Description: **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of America's finest writers.' VOGUE Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy's estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line - until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mars Room Rachel Kushner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 459g ISBN13: 9781910702680 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-68-0 ISBN10: 1910702684 EAN: 9781910702680 x Description: **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers.' STYLIST 'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.' NEW YORK TIMES 'Breathtaking.' VOGUE
Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy's estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The relentlessly deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line - until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Sophie Mackintosh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp 395g ISBN13: 9780241334744 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33474-4 ISBN10: 0241334748 EAN: 9780241334744 x Description: THE LITERARY DEBUT OF THE SUMMER 2018 'An extraordinary debut novel. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world' Guardian 'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist 'Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them - three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake. The Water Cure is a fever dream, a blazing vision of suffering, sisterhood and transformation. 'If you're a fan of The Handmaid's Tale you'll love this one' Evening Standard 'Immensely assured, calmly devastating' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered 'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty' Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating 'Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It transported me, savaged me, filled me with hope and fear. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Sophie Mackintosh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 336g ISBN13: 9780241337349 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33734-9 ISBN10: 0241337348 EAN: 9780241337349 x Description: THE LITERARY DEBUT OF THE SUMMER 2018 'An extraordinary debut novel. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world' Guardian 'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist 'Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them - three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake. The Water Cure is a fever dream, a blazing vision of suffering, sisterhood and transformation. 'Immensely assured, calmly devastating' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered 'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty' Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating 'Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling' Paula Hawkins, author ofThe Girl on the Train 'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Warlight Michael Ondaatje (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp 422g ISBN13: 9781787330719 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-071-9 ISBN10: 1787330710 EAN: 9781787330719 x Description: **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient `The past never remains in the past...' London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth's band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers' trysts in abandoned buildings
at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniel's mother? Was her purported reason for leaving true? What secrets did she hide in her past? Years later Nathaniel, now an adult, begins to slowly piece together using the files of intelligence agencies - and through reality, recollection and imagination - the startling truths of puzzles formed decades earlier. ------`A novel of shadowy brilliance' The Times `Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory' Observer `Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and tangled loyalties and personal yearnings of the secret world...and has constructed something of real emotional and psychological heft, delicate melancholy and yet, frequently, page-turning plottiness. I haven't read a better novel this year.' Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Warlight Michael Ondaatje (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 325g ISBN13: 9781787330726 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-072-6 ISBN10: 1787330729 EAN: 9781787330726 x Description: In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Overstory Richard Powers (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 512pp 760g ISBN13: 9781785151637 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-163-7 ISBN10: 1785151630 EAN: 9781785151637 x Description: ** LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ** 'It's a masterpiece.' - Tim Winton 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond: An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Overstory Richard Powers (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 512pp h234mm x w153mm x s36mm 660g ISBN13: 9781785151644 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-164-4 ISBN10: 1785151649 EAN: 9781785151644 x Description: 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Long Take Robin Robertson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
13 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h197mm x w153mm x s26mm 475g ISBN13: 9781509846887 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-4688-7 ISBN10: 1509846883 EAN: 9781509846887 x Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take is one of the most remarkable - and unclassifiable - books of recent years. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he moves from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but - as those dark, classic movies made clear - the country needed outsiders to study and dramatise its new anxieties.
While Walker tries to piece his life together, America is beginning to come apart: deeply paranoid, doubting its own certainties, riven by social and racial division, spiralling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities. The Long Take is about a good man, brutalised by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it - yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself. Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Normal People Sally Rooney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 419g ISBN13: 9780571334643 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33464-3 ISBN10: 0571334644 EAN: 9780571334643 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Normal People Sally Rooney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 321g ISBN13: 9780571347292 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34729-2 ISBN10: 0571347290 EAN: 9780571347292 x Description: Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From a Low and Quiet Sea Donal Ryan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp 329g ISBN13: 9780857525345 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-534-5 ISBN10: 0857525344 EAN: 9780857525345 x Description: 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From a Low and Quiet Sea Donal Ryan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday Ireland
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Ireland Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h216mm x w135mm x s14mm 208g ISBN13: 9781781620304 ISBN13: 978-1-78162-030-4 ISBN10: 178162030X EAN: 9781781620304 x Description: 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________