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WINTER Literary'Moving, gripping and illuminating. Keeping closely to the known facts about the triangular relationship between the elderly Thomas Hardy, his second wife Florence, and the beautiful young butcher's wife and amateur actress, Gertrude, Nicholson has used the resources of fiction to represent their emotional lives with intensity and depth.' – David Lodge ‘A very fine and intelligent novel’ – The Scotsman ‘A superb novel’ – John Boyne Haunting novel told in the voices of the celebrated author in the winter of his life; his much younger second wife, Florence, who is suffering in his shadow, and that of the wife he now mourns so publicly; and Gertie – a young local woman of great beauty, the amateur actress given the role of Tess of the D’Urbervilles in the first stage production. To Hardy she seems his character’s very embodiment, for she is the daughter of the farmgirl who inspired his most famous novel. In the tradition of Colm Toibin’s THE MASTER, written with the piercing sensitivity of ON CHESIL BEACH; Fourth Estate published (Editor: Georgia Mason) to rave reviews. 256pp.
THE ELEPHANT KEEPER LiteraryShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009. and the Encore Award in 2011. Dramatised for BBC Radio 4. ‘Enchanting.’ The Washington Post ‘A captivatingly original novel.’ Daily Mail ‘Charming and courageous.’ Sunday Express Poignant novel about the extraordinary relationship between a female elephant and her keeper, a young stable boy. Set in late 18th century England, it follows them from Bristol docks to a country estate, and finally, to London. The novel raises questions about sexuality and violence, freedom and captivity, but most of all it is the story of an unlikely but wonderful love. 250pp.
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK Isobel Dixon Award-winning novelist and poet. She was awarded South Africa’s high honour, the Order of Ikhamanga, in 2011 for her outstanding intellectual contribution to literary arts and culture field through poetry, literature and philosophical works”. Author of the short story collections, THE WOMAN WHO FORGOT HER SPYGLASS in Holland (Arena, 1998), and THE SNOW SLEEPER (Querido, 2009, Human & Rousseau 2010, shortlisted for the W.A.Hofmeyr Prize) and the novella MEMORANDUM. (SA: Human & Rousseau 2006, both English and Afrikaans; Holland: Querido 2007; Sweden: Svante Weyler 2013; Honourable Mention, Sunday Times Prize 2007). Her debut novel TRIOMF (Little Brown, 1994) was a New York Times Notable Book, 2004, winner of C.N.A Literary Award, M-Net Prize and prestigious Noma Award for the Best Book in Africa. The film adaptation won the Best South African Film Award at Durban International Film Festival, 2008. AGAAT (UK title: THE WAY OF THE WOMEN) LiteraryWinner of the South African Sunday Times Literary Prize and the Hertzog Prize, SA 2007. Winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize, M-Net Award, W.A. Hofmeyr Award, all 2005. Translated by Michiel Heyns, who won the Sol Plaatje Award and SATI Prize for translation. Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008 Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award 2011 Shortlisted for the St. Francis College Literary Prize 2011. Shortlisted Booksellers’ Choice Award South Africa 2005 and the M-Net Literary Prize 2007. One of Publisher Weekly’s Top 100 Best Books of 2010; Booklist Editor’s Choice List for 2010 Longlisted for Independent Booksellers Choice Award 2011. Chosen by LIASA as one of the Top 20 South African Books 1994-2014. More than 31,000 copies sold in Holland. Number One in Sweden for 6 weeks. ‘I was immediately mesmerized by Ms. van Niekerk’s novel. Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.’ Toni Morrison ‘Unquestionably the most important novel since Coetzee’s DISGRACE.’ TLS ‘It is not often, anywhere in the world, that a novel of such high calibre is written…. An extraordinary accomplishment, an affirmation of the possibilities that a novel and language has to offer.' Stefan Helgesson, Dagens Nyheter Milla, condemned to silence by a creeping paralysis, struggles to communicate with her maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Proud, contrary, secretly affectionate, the two women, mistress and servant, are a perfect match. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise – young and newly married, Milla would raise children and create her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change and all she has left are memories. And Agaat, on the farm since childhood. But as Milla’s old white world and its certainties recede, her guardian at last faces the prospect of freedom. Superbly translated by Michiel Heyns. (Editor: Richard Beswick). 693pp.
LAWRENCE NORFOLK Carole Blakewww.lawrencenorfolk.com Prize-winning, bestselling novelist. Author of LEMPRIERE’S DICTIONARY, THE POPE’S RHINOCEROS and IN THE SHAPE OF A BOAR. Published in 24 languages. Now writing a Queen Elizabeth I novel. Ms expected 2016. ‘Just about ahead of everyone in his generation of English novelists.’ Observer ‘Lawrence Norfolk is a genius.’ Louis de Bernieres. JOHN SATURNALL’S FEAST Literary A novel that has inspired such passion in the UK, US and German publishers that they have each commissioned original – and different – drawings to illustrate the 17th century recipes that preface each chapter (UK editor: Alexandra Pringle). ‘Like all the best historical novels, not just set in some point in history, nor even just a novel in which the characters face epochal events, but a novel about how histories infect stories… The myths that formed John and Lucretia will form their choices, and form the novel’s striking and unexpected denouement.’ Stuart Kelly, The Times A 17th century atmospheric & enclosed world: an English country estate that is – and needs to be – self-sufficient. A young daughter inherits: she has land and the means to feed her many staff. But she has no money. A mute (by choice) orphan is brought into the kitchens: his dead mother reputed to be the village witch. Remembering his mother’s teachings on herbs and other ingredients, his entry to the kitchens sees him become a celebrated self-taught chef, who invents dishes based on combinations of ingredients that no-one has thought to put together before. He and the heiress are attracted to each other and start a torrid affair. But she must marry money or the estate will fail. This hothouse atmosphere is exacerbated by the times: the English civil war is swirling around them, and from one day to the next the young lovers do not know for certain who controls the area around the estate. As the tensions build – the war, their affair – it becomes clear things must change. Chef John Saturnall prepares a sumptuous wedding feast, but who will be the bridegroom? 410 pp.
JOSEPH O’CONNOR Carole Blakewww.josephoconnorauthor.com The inaugural Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, 2014. Film and television scripts, journalism, biography and travel literature. Author of COWBOYS AND INDIANS, Sinclair Stevenson 1991; TRUE BELIEVERS Sinclair Stevenson 1991; DESPERADOES, Flamingo 1994, THE SALESMAN, Secker 1997 (film rights optioned to Treasure Films), INISHOWEN, Secker 2000, STAR OF THE SEA, Secker 2002 and REDEMPTION FALLS, Secker 2007. His radio ‘Drivetime Diaries’ are on CD by RTE, Ireland. Winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award, the Time Out Macaulay Fellowship of the Irish Arts Council and the Sunday Tribune Short Story Award. GHOST LIGHT was a 2010 Telegraph Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011. 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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