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Summer Books 2007

A selection of books to be published in July and August

Fiction

 
bulletCall Me By Your Name   André Aciman   The author is a Proustian scholar. His first novel, this is a brilliant, intense evocation of the dynamics of desire between two men   hbk £15
bulletGirls Of Riyadh   Rajaa Alsanea   The cause of major controversy in the Arab world, this is the story of four young Saudi women and their attempts to lead modern lives in a traditional Islamic society   hbk £12.99
bulletLife Class   Pat Barker   The author of the 'Regeneration' trilogy returns to the First World War   hbk £16.99
bulletAway   Amy Bloom   The story of a young girl who escapes to America after the destruction of her family in a pogrom   pbk £10.99
bulletThe Shuttle   Francis Hodgson Burnett   A novel from 1907 about American heiresses marrying English aristocrats   pbk £12
bulletEnd Games   Michael Dibdin   The author's recent death should mean that this is the last Aurelio Zen, but in publishing there are miracles every day…   hbk £12.99
bulletThe Kingdom Of Ashes   Robert Edric   Set just after WW2, this new novel is the counterpart to 'Peacetime' (long-listed for the Booker)   hbk £16.99
bulletThe Snake Stone   Jason Goodwin   A sequel to 'The Janissary Tree' (pbk, £7.99) - last year's bestselling Ottoman crime novel   hbk £12.99
bulletThe Birthday Party   Panos Karnezis   Set in 1975, a Greek tycoon lures his daughter to a private island under a false pretext…   hbk £12.99
bulletAgamemnon's Daughter   Ismail Kadare   This is a prequel to 'The Successor' (pbk, £6.99) and was originally smuggled out of Albania a few pages at a time   hbk £12.99
bulletThe One From The Other   Philip Kerr   Bernie Gunther, protagonist of the 'Berlin Noir' trilogy, returns.  It is now 1949, and victors and vanquished are getting up to no good   hbk £12.99
bulletThe World According To Bertie   Alexander McCall Smith   The next in the '44 Scotland Street' series   hbk £14.99
bulletMurder At Deviation Junction   Andrew Martin   The fourth in the series for the Edwardian railway detective Jim Stringer   pbk £10.99
bulletCharlemagne And Roland   Allan Massie   The conclusion of the 'Dark Ages' trilogy   hbk £12.99
bulletMichael Tolliver Lives   Armistead Maupin   The return of our old friend from 'Tales of the City', now in his fifties   hbk £17.99
bulletThe Condor's Head   Ferdinand Mount   France, 1785: a young American falls in love with the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld…   hbk £17.99
bulletSulphuric Acid   Amélie Nothomb   The new novel from this moderately famous Belgian concerns a reality TV Death Camp   hbk £10.99
bulletThe Gravedigger's Daughter   Joyce Carol Oates   The prolific author's 407th novel   hbk £17.99
bulletDivisadero   Michael Ondaatje   An intriguing novel about loss and the difficulty of reuniting ruptured lives, with the narrative moving between a poker player in California and a lonely old writer in rural France   hbk £17.99
bulletLost Paradise   Cees Nooteboom   A fable from the great Dutch author   hbk £12.99
bulletRun   Ann Patchett   A new novel from the author of 'Bel Canto' (pbk, £7.99), set in icy New England   hbk £14.99
bulletHouse-Bound   Winifred Peck, introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald   Née Knox, the author was an aunt of the late, great Penelope Fitzgerald, and the sister of the Knox brothers about whom Fitzgerald wrote. This story is set in Edinburgh during the war, and was the author's niece's favourite (family tree available on request)   pbk £12
bulletNot In The Flesh   Ruth Rendell   Chief Inspector Wexford gets involved after a gruesome discovery - and we're not talking about his age (he first appeared in 1964)   hbk £17.99
bulletIllegal Action   Stella Rimington   The former head of MI5 continues to enjoy her new career - with a thriller featuring a plot to bump off a Russian oligarch   hbk £12.99
bulletThe Bastard Of Istanbul   Elif Shafak   A contemporary family story, translated from the Turkish   hbk £16.99
bulletSecrets Of The Sea   Nicholas Shakespeare   ATasmanian setting for this accomplished writer's new novel   hbk £12.99
bulletThe Illumination Of Merton Browne   J.M. Shaw   A disturbing first novel concerned with juvenile urban depravity and the possibility of redemption through education   hbk £12.99
bulletAbsurdistan   Gary Shteyngart   From the author of 'The Russian Débutante's Handbook' (pbk, £7.99), a satire of post-Soviet life   pbk £10.99
bulletConfessions Of A Sugar Mummy   Emma Tennant   hbk £12
bulletThe Elephanta Suite   Paul Theroux   Set in modern India   hbk £17.99
bulletCheating At Canasta   William Trevor   A new collection of short stories   hbk £16.99
bulletHotel de Dream   Edmund White   Two stories in one: the writing of Stephen Crane's last novel, as White depicts his journey to a TB clinic in the Black Forest in 1900   hbk £14.99
bulletWinnie And Wolf   A N Wilson   You wait ages for a novel about The Führer, and along come three at once: Mailer, Cartwright and now this one, which also features Winifred Wagner   hbk £17.99

 

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