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Fiction Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Helen Simonson PB $32.99 Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in a small rural English village, where he values the proper things that Englishmen have treasured for generations. The Major takes pleasure in his wellorganised and rational life until he finds out that his patronising son and the kind, yet interfering ladies of the village, seem to have their own, rather special plans for him. So Much for That Lionel Shriver PB $32.99 All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. On the very day that he announces he is leaving, his wife informs him that she needs his health insurance money. Despite having insurance coverage, the astronomically expensive treatments systematically deplete their nest egg and this once well-off businessman hurtles towards bankruptcy. Shriver’s new novel takes a hard look at America’s health-care system and asks: how much money is one human life worth? The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge Patricia Duncker PB $29.99 Hunters on their way home through a forest in the Jura stumble upon a half-circle of dead bodies lying in the freshly fallen snow. A nearby holiday chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, decorations, presents for the dead children. The hunters are questioned and sent away. This literary thriller is a metaphysical mystery of astonishing verve and power. Hotel Iris Yoko Ogawa PB $32.95 In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet 17-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. A sophisticated observer of human desire, she sees in one guest, a proud if threadbare translator, something she has long been looking for. This award-winning author returns with the twisted tale of an affair between a young woman and a mysterious translator. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin PB $23.99 Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan’s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin’s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. Mr Rosenblum’s List Natasha Solomons HB $29.99 Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Jack is compiling a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of his new home. And he never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse. Assimilation, he’s convinced, is the secret of success. But the war’s been over for eight years and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend in remains fraught with unexpected hurdles.
Fiction Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada PB $26.95 This never-beforetranslated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. “The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis.” – Primo Levi Trespass Rose Tremain PB $32.95 In an isolated stone farmhouse lives Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge. Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel PB $32.95 When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey – named Beatrice and Virgil – and the epic journey they undertake together. This brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. Solar Ian McEwan PB $32.95 Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees and lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Point Omega Don Delillo PB $29.99 Richard Elster was a scholar when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency. Now at the end of his service Elster has retreated to the desert, “somewhere south of nowhere,” in search of space and time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It Maile Meloy PB $27.95 Caught between opposing forces – fidelity and desire, impulse and security, innocence and experience – Meloy’s unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in the road. But what kind of fool wants it only one way? These eleven stories are funny, sly and sparkling with energy. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It is a joyous read.
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