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- DEAD MAN’S TIME: book 9 in the Roy Grace series Crime
- CHARLES LAMBERT Isobel Dixon
- ZAKES MDA Isobel Dixon
- DEON MEYER Isobel Dixon
PERFECT PEOPLE Stand alone thrillerShortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2012. Shortlisted for 2012 Specsavers’ National Book Award A heartbroken couple who have lost a child to an hereditary disease wish to make sure their next child will not suffer in the same way. A doctor promises he can screen the embryo. They unwittingly enter the world of ‘designer babies’ and without realising it, find themselves being manipulated by an unscrupulous doctor. Page-turning and controversiall. 458 pp.
WANT YOU DEAD: book 10 in the Roy Grace series Crime A relationship turns sour when Red discovers everything her lover told her about himself is untrue. Then he turns into a stalker, intent on destroying her. PDF available, 400 pp.
DEAD MAN’S TIME: book 9 in the Roy Grace series CrimeNew York, 1922. Little Gavin Daly and his sister board the SS Mauretania to Dublin, and safety. Their mother has been shot, their Irish mobster father abducted. A messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written 4 names, 11 numbers, his father’s pocket watch, and a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, Gavin promises he will return to find his father. Brighton, 2012. Roy Grace investigates a savage burglary in Brighton in which an old lady is murdered: £10m of antiques have been taken, including a rare vintage watch. To Grace’s surprise, it is only the watch the family wants back. There’s a hornet’s nest of new and ancient hatreds. Gavin Daly, the dead woman’s 95 year old brother has a score to settle and a promise to keep. In a race against the clock to stop another killing, Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversaries – a man with fury in his heart who has nothing to lose. 407 pp.
BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK Juliet Pickering http://www.benjohncock.com Twitter: @benjohncock Novelist and writer. His short fiction has been published by The Junket and The Fiction Desk, and in 2012 he won an American Literary Merit Award and the National Short Story Day competition. Currently working on his first novel, BURNING, BLUE. MANU JOSEPH Isobel Dixon http://www.manujoseph.com/ Columnist with The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times. THE ILLICIT HAPPINESS OF OTHER PEOPLE Literary Shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2013 Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize for Literature 2014 Tender, funny and wise, a Dutch bestseller for Podium, and C.H. Beck’s autumn 2013 lead title. Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in the world, this powerful and darkly comic story follows alcoholic journalist Ousep as he searches the city for clues to his son’s tragic death. 343pp (UK editor: Roland Phillips, US editor: Amy Cherry, Canadian editor: Iris Tupholme, Indian editor: V K Karthika).
SERIOUS MEN Literary Winner of the Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. Shortlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize 2010, Commonwealth Prize South Asia & Europe Best First Book 2011, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2011, ALOA Prize Denmark. One of Huffington Post’s Best Books 2010; A New York Times ‘Editor’s Choice’, by The Telegraph as one of their 2010 ‘First Novels to Savour’ and Independent’s Pick of 2010. ‘Witty, subversive, extraordinarily perceptive, deliciously wicked.’ Manil Suri ‘One of the strongest debuts of 2010, this bittersweet Mumbai tale of high minds and low plots is more Lucky Jim than White Tiger. Touching, hilarious’ Independent Poignant and comic tale of science, dreams and hope, and two very different serious men. Ayyan is a lowly personal assistant to a brilliant, arrogant astronomer, Arvind Acharya, at the Institute of Theory and Research. Ayyan Mani is stranded in the slums of Mumbai, and desperate: and so he begins to weave an outrageous story of genius around his shy ten-year-old son, setting in motion a chain of events he will not be able to stop. 310pp.
CHARLES LAMBERT Isobel Dixonwww.charleslambert.homestead.com Twitter: @charles_lambert Born in England, he is a university teacher in Rome. His work is included in several anthologies, including NEW WRITING 15 (Granta/The British Council). ‘The Scent of Cinnamon’, published in One Story, won an O. Henry Prize. Author of a short story collection, THE SCENT OF CINNAMON (UK: Salt 2008) and LITTLE MONSTERS (UK: Picador 2008, Longlisted for the IMPAC). His novella THE SLAVE HOUSE is published on Amazon Singles, with audio by Audible. Exhibit A (Editor: Bryon Quertermous) will also publish THE FOLDING WORLD, the third of Lambert’s suspenseful novels showing Rome’s dark side, in 2014. The Friday Project (editor: Scott Pack) will publish his novel PRODIGAL in early 2015. Lambert is also completing a short story collection SHEET MUSIC. “Lambert’s writing is expressive and finely tuned; he has a flair for characterisation and a sense of place which goes down very well…” Sunday Business Post ‘Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer.' Beryl Bainbridge ‘Compelling reading.’ Patricia Duncker ‘Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn.’ Hannah Tinti ‘
‘In breathtaking sequence after sequence, Charles Lambert demonstrates the unflinching honesty of a narrator unafraid to live, ultimately building WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART into a stunning portrait of a loss and redeeming love.’ Niven Govinden 24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120 words. The sum of a life. In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nature of memory, how the piecing together of short recollections can reveal a greater narrative. Through chapters tackling elemental themes such as Sex, Death, and Money, Lambert assembles the narrator’s moving life story. Executed with all the grace and finesse of his previous acclaimed work, this is an incredible artistic achievement, breathtaking in its simplicity yet awe-inspiring in its scope. With cover and text design by the renowned designer Vaughan Oliver, WITH A ZERO AT ITS HEART is as beautiful to look at as it is to read. The Friday Project (Editor: Scott Pack) publish in May 2014. 146pp.
THE VIEW FROM THE TOWER Literary Suspense ‘A superb, deeply thought-out book written by an author who recognizes the darkness of the human heart.’ Mystery Scene Magazine A gripping psychological thriller about love and betrayal, certain to appeal to fans of le Carré and William Boyd. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover in Rome, when a gunman murders her husband, a high-level politician, less than a mile away. Helen immediately finds herself both a suspect and suspicious of those around her – including her friends and her husband’s family, and her lover, Giacomo, an ex-terrorist with a new wife and a reinvented life. As she struggles to understand her husband’s death and the extent to which she and the people she knows may have been responsible for it, Helen is forced to examine her own past and peel back the years of secrets and lies. 336pp.
JESSE LONCRAINE Juliet Pickering Studied English Literature at Bristol, and later, Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies), with an emphasis on the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia and the prosecution of atrocity crimes. Since then he has worked on documentaries, written and taught about the International Criminal Court, been a landscape gardener in New York and worked in a bowling alley bar. Jesse has three short stories published in The White Review, and is currently writing his first novel IN THE FIELD. SIOBHAN MACDONALD Isobel Dixon http://siobhanmacdonald.com/ Twitter: @SiobhanMMacD Born in Cork, Siobhan studied in Galway, worked as a technical writer in Scotland for ten years, then in France, before returning to Ireland. She lives in Limerick with her husband and two sons. TWISTED RIVER Psychological Suspense A gripping new “marriage noir” set in Manhattan and Limerick, as a dream holiday house-swap goes tragically wrong. Kate and Mannix Stokes live with their two children in a quirky house overlooking the Curragower Falls on the Shannon River in Limerick – a city where the haves and have-nots live side by side. Meanwhile, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Harveys own a fashionable brownstone on Riverside Drive. For their family vacations this year, they’ve both booked in for a house-swap – and it’s one they will never forget. At the novel’s start, Oscar Harvey is opening the trunk of the car his hosts have loaned him – and finds inside the body of a woman. From this shocking beginning the story spools back to the roots of the house swap, taking the reader on a gripping journey that never lets up. Ms available, 102,500 words. Exhibit A (Editor: Bryon Quertermous) publish in October 2014.
THE BLUE POOL Psychological Suspense It’s the 1980s and four young women, university housemates in Galway, head off for the weekend to a cottage on the coast, a place called the Blue Pool. For the second year in a row – another tumultuous year of money worries, partying and man trouble – the girls have failed their exams and are awaiting results of the re-sits. But only three of them come back. Twenty-five years later one of them gets a phone call. Someone is in custody, someone who knows what happened, threatening their settled lives: Maeve, wealthy and living in England; Liz, happily married; and Julie, struggling through divorce. After all this time, are they about to find out what happened to Sarah? Memories are stirred up, and each woman has to examine her own actions in the days leading up to the disappearance. THE BLUE POOL examines the ebb and flow of long term friendships, parental pressure, and the corrosive effects of guilt, as it races to a shocking conclusion. Ms available, 83,000 words. Exhibit A publish in 2015.
MURIEL MACLEOD Julian Friedmann Twitter: @MurielMacleod Born in the Western Isles of Scotland, she is a distinguished artist and animation film producer and was Director of the British Fullbright Scholars Association for 9 years. She edited the BFSA Newsletter and for over 20 years illustrated articles for the Times Educational Supplement. WHAT THE RIVER WASHED AWAY Literary “A spellbinding novel” -- Marlon James, author of ‘The Book of Night Women’ “Stunning... a heart-wrenching tale that speaks to you long after the last page is turned” -- Maureen Lindley, author of ‘The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel’ “An inspiring story which will haunt you long after you have read the final pages” -- New Internationalist A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret — these lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod’s powerful first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana, where lawlessness still reigns and the voodoo curses and charms of the old ways hold sway. Here eight-year-old Arletta lives with her family in an isolated shack in the woods. Sometimes she sees the white men walking down the track toward her home and knows to hide. But sometimes she sees them too late, until one day she finds the strength to fight back with ferocity. The men don’t return. But when years later she hears that another girl has been attacked, and past meets present, Arletta is compelled to act, plotting a revenge that will leave its mark on history. 288pp. (UK ed. Juliet Mabey)
ZAKES MDA Isobel Dixonwww.zakesmda.com Twitter: @zakesmda Writer, painter, composer and film maker. He commutes between South Africa and the U.S., as professor of creative writing at Ohio University, beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, patron of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust. Author of SHE PLAYS WITH THE DARKNESS, (SA: Vivlia 1995, and US: Picador, 2004), THE HEART OF REDNESS (rights sold in 8 markets, winner of the Africa Commonwealth Writers Prize and SA Sunday Times Fiction Award, 2001, and shortlisted for the Hurston / Wright Legacy Award 2003, film rights Chop Production, chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books 1994-2014 along with THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR.) THE MADONNA OF EXCELSIOR (UK: Viking; Canada: Penguin; USA: FSG and 5 languages), and THE WHALE CALLER (USA: FSG, Canada: Penguin, and 6 languages; Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award 2007, Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize Africa Region 2006, and Chosen as one of the 25 must-read South African books in a 2007 survey. Film rights optioned by Zola Maseko), CION (USA: Picador; SA: Penguin; Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize 2008). He has written his memoir SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID (SA Engl: Penguin 2011; US: FSG 2011, 559pp). RACHEL’S BLUE is a powerful American-set story about the challenges a young woman faces after she becomes pregnant through rape. ‘Black South Africa has found a strong new voice in Zakes Mda. He defies all political constraints as he seeks to go to the very soul of post-apartheid South Africa.’ The Economist THE SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE Literary In the ancient African kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and Rendani. As they grew, so did their rivalry – and their extraordinary talents. But while Rendani became a master sculptor of the animals that ran wild in the hills and valleys of the land, Chata learned to carve fantastic beings from his dreams, creatures never before seen on Earth. From this rivalry between brothers, Mda crafts a rich, irresistible fable of love and family. What makes better art, perfect mimicry or inspiration? Who makes the better wife, a princess or a mysterious dancer? Ageless and contemporary, deceptive in its simplicity and mythical in its scope, THE SCULPTORS OF MAPUNGUBWE is an enchanting story of love, envy, and the artist's primal urge to forge art from nature and nature into art. Opera rights under negotiation. 272pp.
DEON MEYER Isobel Dixonwww.deonmeyer.com Twitter: @MeyerDeon‘Deon Meyer should be on everyone’s reading list.’ Michael Connelly ‘Deon Meyer is one of the best crime writers on the planet.' Mail on Sunday ‘Deon Meyer is…far better than Stieg Larsson…With TRACKERS I would suggest he has moved into the John le Carré class.’ Mike Ripley, Shots Magazine
Benny Griessel is first on the scene of a bloodbath at a luxury wine farm guesthouse. Two of the dead are professional bodyguards, but there is no sign of the man they were meant to be protecting. Paul Morris, a British citizen with a brand new passport and no history, has been kidnapped. The only clue is an engraving on every shell case – a spitting cobra. In Cape Town, skilled pickpocket Tyrone Kleinbooi is drawing on all his talents to pay for his sister Nadia’s university fees. But then he steals the wrong purse, and is soon fleeing for his life… Meanwhile Benny and his Hawk unit partners make some uncomfortable discoveries: Morris’s passport is fake, and the British consulate is suddenly unco-operative. The cobra casings are the mark of a ruthless assassin and the missing man is an eminent Cambridge mathematician. What dangerous, desirable knowledge does he hold? And then Nadia Kleinbooi is abducted… A brilliant Benny Griessel thriller, introducing marvellous new characters. Hodder publish in July 2014. (UK editor: Nick Sayers). English ms available, 102,600 words.
7 DAYS Crime Thriller Winner of the 2011/2012 Nielsen Bookseller’s Choice Award in South Africa Detective Benny Griessel is back – and he has a blossoming but complex relationship on his hands, with fellow recovering alcoholic and former star singer, Alexa Barnard. But to add to the tension of Alexa’s crucial comeback performance, a policeman is shot in the leg by a mystery sniper, in broad daylight. Soon the police are receiving threatening letters from the sharpshooter, who says he will shoot a policeman a day until the murderer of a beautiful young lawyer is brought to justice. As Mbaleni Kaleni is put on the team to track the sniper, Benny has just seven days to resolve the murder of Hanneke Sloet, and as the clock ticks and complex secrets are uncovered, another policeman is gunned down… (UK editor: Nick Sayers, US editor: Morgan Entrekin, Canadian editor: Marion Garner). 424pp.
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON Isobel Dixon www.christophernicholsonwriter.com Prize-winning radio documentary producer. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 0.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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