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new book. What about the fantastic new
novel from Judith White or the new Philip
Meyer - which has been described as the
standout epic of our time? Warm up your
kitchen with Rick Stein’s India and keep
your kids entertained when they’re stuck
indoors with the powerful novel from
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2013
The Elusive Language of Ducks
Judith White
An exploration of dependency, obsession, grief, addiction, unfulfilled maternal
instincts, marital secrets and love are all themes explored in a compelling and
quirky much-anticipated new novel from former NZ Montana Awards finalist, Judith
White. And, at the centre of it is a duck. The novel was triggered by the unexpected
and not exactly welcome arrival of an orphan duckling. As it grew, Judith White
became fascinated by the intricate design of its development and eventually
started to make journal notes about its progress. Meanwhile the duck became
attached to her, and she reluctantly became attached to the duck.
The duck also embodies a mixture of emotions. While Hannah’s focus on the duck
progressively alienates those around her, the novel contemplates the chemistry around attachment and love:
whether between a husband and wife; a man and another man’s wife; a drug addict and his drug; a woman
and her dead mother; a woman and a duck ... This compelling novel offers a penetrating and compassionate
view of marriage, and of the transient nature of life and its secrets, within a chaotic world.
Judith White is known for ‘vividly and hauntingly original’ writing and, as Iain Sharpe in the Sunday Star-Times
noted, is ‘second to none . . . when it comes to depicting states of anxiety, both comic and poignant.’
7 June; Random House Vintage; $37.99
Jennifer Balle: jballe@randomhouse.co.nz
White Lies
Witi Ihimaera
A medicine woman — a giver of life — is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal
consequences. She is the healer and midwife of her rural tribe, but new laws are in force prohibiting unlicensed healers. When she is
approached by the servant of a wealthy woman, who seeks her assistance, three very different women become players in a head-on
clash of beliefs, deception and ultimate salvation.
Exploring the tension between Western and traditional Maori medicine, and the pressures of societal expectations on unwanted
pregnancies, the novella tackles strong moral dilemmas. At the same time, it is a compelling story, with unexpected twists and a pace
that picks up speed and intensity as the story progresses.
First published as a short story in Witi Ihimaera’s collection Ask the Posts, this story has since developed not just into a novella, but a fully fledged film, starring
Whirimako Black, Antonia Prebble and Rachel House. It’s being directed by Dana Rotberg, produced by John Barnett and Chris Hampson; and its director of
photography is NZ Arts Foundation Laureate Alun Bollinger. The novella and the screenplay, along with notes by the author, producer and director, as well as
stills from the film will all be included in the book. The movie, also called White Lies, will be released at the end of June 2013.
7 June; Random House Vintage; $36.99
Jennifer Balle: jballe@randomhouse.co.nz
Moon Over Martinborough: From Michigan to the Wairarapa...How an American
City Boy became a Kiwi Farmer
Jared Gulian
Evil Cow, Old Lady Lucy, Old Man Henry, Sweetie the lamb, Francoise the hen and even a trusty little Nissan Pulsar hatchback...they all
have starring roles in this thoroughly delightful, entertaining, true-life story of how two American city boys became Wairarapa farmers.
Jared Gulian’s Moon over Martinborough is a story with a very big heart at its centre. It’s a story about falling in love with a
breathtakingly beautiful part of the Wairarapa, falling in love with olive trees, falling in love with caring for livestock, falling in love
with a community, and falling in love with the Kiwi way of life. In this endearing, hilarious, wry and warm-hearted book, Jared
describes the first four years of their new life in the country, its disasters and small triumphs, its surprises and pleasures. But most
of all he describes the warmth of local community that welcomed him, saved him from certain peril, taught him how to cook, how
to care for animals, and how to understand and love the land. Not a page goes by where there isn’t at least a smile or a laugh-outloud
moment — and even a few tears —as Jared shares the highs and heartaches of their four years of breathing life into their tired
lifestyle block while continuing with their Wellington working life. Jared and CJ’s story is, without a doubt, one that Martinborough and Jared’s blog followers
have taken to their hearts, and so too will the rest of us.
7 June; Random House NZ; $39.99
Jennifer Balle: jballe@randomhouse.co.nz

died five years before.
Dear Vincent
Mandy Hager
Dear Vincent is a novel about the power
of love, and how the acquisition of inner
peace requires forgiveness of ourselves and
others.
17 year old Tara McClusky’s life is hard. She
shares the care of her paralysed father with
her domineering, difficult mother, and is
forced to cut down on her hours at school
to help support the family with a part-time
rest home job. She’s very much alone, still
grieving the loss of her older sister Van, who
Her only source of consolation is her obsession with art — and painting
in particular. Most especially she is enamoured with Vincent Van Gogh:
she has read all his letters and finds many parallels between the tragic
story of his life and her own.
Luckily she meets the intelligent, kindly Professor Max Stockhamer (a
Jewish refugee and philosopher) and his grandson Johannes, and their
support is crucial to her ability to survive this turbulent time.
Mandy Hager is a Wellington author and educator. She won the Esther
Glen Award for Fiction for her novel Smashed and Best Young Adult
Book in the NZ Post Book Awards 2010 for The Crossing. Her Blood of
the Lamb trilogy was published to very high praise and was followed by
the critically lauded The Nature of Ash.
Henry’s Map
David Elliot
A super-cute, fun picture book about
an adorable pig called Henry; the book
also serves as a delightful introduction
to maps that teachers and parents will
love!
Henry is a very particular sort of
pig, who believes there’s ‘a place for
everything and everything in its place’.
But when he looks out the window,
he’s troubled. The farm is a mess! So he
decides to draw a map to show everyone exactly where they belong.
He takes a journey through the farm with his friends as he draws the map:
sheep in the woolshed; chickens in the coop; horse in the stable.
Award-winning writer and illustrator David Elliott crafts a lovely comic
ending which children will work out long before Henry does.
David Elliot is an award-winning illustrator and author who has achieved
international success. He illustrated five books in the Redwall series,
and two in the Castaway series, both by author Brian Jacques. He also
illustrated The Great Tree of Avalon series by TA Barron. He won the New
Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year award with The Moon and Farmer
McPhee written by Margaret Mahy and illustrated by David.
7 June; Random House NZ Children’s; $19.99
Hannah de Valda: hannah@devalda.com
7 June; Random House NZ Children’s; $19.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
Rick Stein’s India
Rick Stein
Embargoed until 6/6/2013
“There is something about a curry that is
all pervading – just the mere mention of
the word ignites a longing deep inside
us, especially after a couple of beers in
good company…”
Rick Stein is undertaking a new
gastronomic odyssey – a journey
through the vibrant colours, spices and
tastes of authentic Indian cuisine.
Whether sampling Bhapa maach paturi (spicy steamed fish) in Calcutta,
exploring the impact of spicy Konkan cuisine on European settlers or
trying his hand at a hot Tandoori grill, Rick is searching for the soul of
Indian food – the real flavours, ingredients and techniques that make
up this fiery and fragrant cuisine.
But he doesn’t stop there. Rick also brings the six finest dishes that he’s
discovered on his journey back to the UK and puts them to the test.
These six discoveries are Rick’s personal favourites, and the ones that he
believes the British public will enjoy the most.
Rick Stein’s passion for using good-quality local produce and his
talent for creating delicious flavour combinations in his books and
restaurants have won him a host of awards, accolades and fans. As well
as presenting a number of television series, he has published many
best-selling cookery books, including French Odyssey, Coast to Coast, Far
Eastern Odyssey and Rick Stein’s Spain.
Serious Creativity: A Step
by Step Approach to using
the Logic of Creative
Thinking
Edward de Bono
If you want to be the best, focus on your
most valuable asset: the power of your
creative mind. As competition and the
pace of change intensify, companies and
individuals need to harness their creativity
to stay ahead of the field. Under pressure,
people often think they can’t be creative;
many more are convinced they are not
creative at all because they have never been ‘arty’. Creative genius
Edward de Bono debunks these common notions in this remarkable
book. He shows how creativity is a learnable skill – one that everyone
can use to improve their performance. He then explains how you
can unlock your own creativity to reap the personal and professional
rewards it will bring. Learn how to: * be creative on demand with de
Bono’s step-by-step approach * add value to ideas and turn them into
financial assets * boost creativity with the power of lateral thinking *
break free from old ways of thinking with creative challenging
Edward de Bono is the leading authority in the field of creative
thinking, the originator of the term ‘lateral thinking’, and one of the
few thinkers who is highly regarded internationally. His instruction
has been sought by governments and by the leading corporations of
the world. He has written thirty-six books in the field of creativity and
thinking - including the international bestsellers Six Thinking Hats and
Lateral Thinking. De Bono was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and has held
appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and
Harvard.
7 June; BBC Ebury; $65.00
Rebecca Simpson: rsimpson@randomhouse.co.nz
1 June; Vermillion; $34.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz

The Son
Philipp Meyer
An epic journey spanning a century and
a half in Texas, America. Eli McCullough
was born in 1836, the year that the
Republic of Texas was declared an
Independent State, borne out of a battle
with the Mexicans to settle the State. He
was the first child of this New Republic.
Eight years later he and his brother are
kidnapped after a savage family killing
by a tribe of Native American Indians.
They are left with nothing, barely their
lives, whilst Eli watches his own sister being raped and killed. Slowly
he learns the ways and life of the Comanches as they battle to
survive themselves against the incursions of the white settlers. But
his progress within the tribe is matched by the tribe’s own perilous
journey, and an epidemic endangers their future. Eli is forced to
leave the tribe and pursue his life elsewhere. He falls in love has
children and becomes a Ranger working for the Government, but
finds it hard to break his Comanche memories and ways. He lives to
be 100 and tells his remarkable story.
Three stories of one family within this novel combine to produce
nothing less than a standout epic of and for our time.
Philipp Meyer grew up in a working class neighborhood in
Baltimore. At age 20, he began taking classes at a variety of colleges
in Baltimore and decided to become a writer. . He graduated with a
degree in English and a mountain of debt. After several years at UBS,
he’d paid off most of his student loans and decided to pursue his
dream of becoming a writer. His novels include American Rust and
The Son.
7 June; Vintage Australia; $3.99
Hannah de Valda: hannah@devalda.com
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘Good, good, now say cheese, say cheese,
cheese, cheeeeese’
Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they
always ask Darling and her friends Stina,
Chipo, Godknows, Sbho and Bastard to smile
– and sometimes even to dance – for the
camera.
Here are some of the things Darling and her
friends have to smile about: playing countrygame
and Find Bin Laden, stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing
Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices.
And some of the things they don’t: living in a shanty, how to get rid
of the baby in Chipo’s stomach, the Sickness, losing their men to the
mines.
They dream of the paradises – America, Dubai, Europe – of Angelina
Jolie, Madonna, David Beckham. But, as Darling finds out, these
promised lands bring their own problems for children, parents and
grandparents looking for a new place to call home.
NoViolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwe’s
independence from British colonial rule. Unlike her seven older siblings,
she was born into a free country with the promise of broadened
horizons. She was brought up by vibrant storytellers, including her
grandmother, and quickly found a relationship between their stories
and the stories she read in books.
7 June; Chatto & Windus; $36.99
Yvonne Thynne: ythynne@randomhouse.co.nz
Until You’re Mine
Samantha Hayes
You’re alone. You’re vulnerable. And
you have something that someone else
wants. At any cost ... If you liked BEFORE
I GO TO SLEEP, you’ll love this gripping
psychological thriller.
Claudia seems to have the perfect life.
She’s heavily pregnant with a much
wanted baby, she has a loving husband,
and a beautiful home.
And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia when
her baby arrives.
But there’s something about Zoe that Claudia doesn’t like. Or trust.
And when she finds Zoe in her room going through her most personal
possesions, Claudia’s anxiety turns to real fear ...
Samantha Hayes grew up in the West Midlands, left school at
sixteen, avoided university and took jobs ranging from being a private
detective to barmaid to fruit picker and factory worker. She lived
on a kibbutz, and spent time in Australia and the USA, before finally
becoming a crime-writer.
Midnight in St Petersburg
Vanora Bennett
St Petersburg,1911: Inna Feldman has fled
the pogroms of her native Kiev to take
refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s
capital city.
Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman
family, she is apprenticed into their violinmaking
workshop.
With her looks and talents, she feels
instantly at home in their bohemian circle
of friends. But revolution is in the air and,
as society begins to fracture, she is forced
to choose between her heart and her head.
She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive and
bent on revolution; Horace Wallich, the Englishman who works for
Fabergé, is older and promises security and respectability.
As the revolution descends into anarchy and blood-letting, a
commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means
of escape. But will man will she choose to take with her? And is it already
too late?
Vanora Bennett is an author and journalist who has covered political,
military and religious conflicts in unstable countries around the world.
She has written six previous books: four historical novels and two nonfiction
books about her experiences. She lives in North London with her
husband and two sons. To find out more, visit www.vanorabennett.com
20 June; Cornerstone; $27.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
7 June; Century; $37.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz

A Treacherous Paradise
Henning Mankell
In 1904 Hanna Lundmark escapes the
brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job
as a cook onboard a steamship headed
for Australia. On the voyage she finds
love in the form of the ship’s mate,
whom she marries. But disaster strikes
when her husband is struck down by a
fatal illness while the ship is docked on
the East African coast. Jumping ship at
the port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna
decides to begin her life anew.
Stumbling across a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes embroiled in
a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the most successful
brothel in town, complete with a chimpanzee who serves drinks. Hanna
tries to befriend the prostitutes working for her, and change life in the
town for the better, but the distrust between blacks and whites, and the
shadow of colonialism, lead to tragedy and murder.
Based on a true story, A Sullied Angel sees Henning Mankell turn
his talents for suspense and insight to a world where power and
powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity.
Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfield
For identical twins, Daisy and Violet are
about as unlike as two peas from the same
pod can be. Except in one respect – they
both have a gift, a special kind of intuition
that lets them see the secrets other people
hide. But growing up different from
everyone else isn’t necessarily any easier
when you have someone to share it with,
and as the sisters get older and take their
opposite paths into adult life, the bond of
twin-hood is stretched further and further
- until the day when Violet does something
that threatens to shatter it completely.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller
American Wife. Her first novel, Prep, was a New York Times bestseller
and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel was The Man
of My Dreams. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop.
Henning Mankell has become a worldwide phenomenon with his
crime writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels set in Africa. His
prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector Wallander Mysteries are
currently dominating bestseller lists all over the globe.
7 June; Harvill Secker; $37.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
7 June; Doubleday; $37.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
Like This, Forever
S J Bolton
LIKE THIS, FOR EVER is published as LOST
in the US.
Bright red. Like rose petals. Or rubies. Little
red droplets.
Barney knows the killer will strike again
soon. The victim will be another boy, just
like him. He will drain the body of blood,
and leave it on a Thames beach.
There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury
to find.
There will be no warning about who will be next.
There will be no good reason for Lacey Flint to become involved . . .
And no chance that she can stay away.
S. J. BOLTON Keep telling yourself it’s only fiction . . .
S. J. Bolton is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Sacrifice,
Awakening, Blood Harvest, Now You See Me and Dead Scared. Sacrifice
was nominated for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best
First Novel, and voted Top Debut Thriller in the first ever Amazon
Rising Stars. Awakening won the Mary Higgins Clark award for Thriller
of the Year. In 2010 Blood Harvest was shortlisted for the CWA Gold
Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year, and in both 2011 and 2012 S. J.
Bolton was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, an award for
an entire body of work, nominated by library users. S. J. Bolton lives
near Oxford with her husband and young son.
For March Release
The Examined Life
Stephen Grosz
’This book is about change.’
We are all storytellers – we make stories to
make sense of our lives. But it is not enough
to tell tales. There must be someone to
listen.
In his work as a practising psychoanalyst,
Stephen Grosz has spent the last twentyfive
years uncovering the hidden feelings
behind our most baffling behaviour. The
Examined Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure
psychological insight, without the jargon.
This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening
and understanding. Its aphoristic and elegant stories teach us a new
kind of attentiveness. They also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the
analyst at work, and show how lessons learned in the consulting room
can reveal as much to him as to the patient.
These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people
we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief.
Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we
might find ourselves too.
Stephen Grosz was born in Indiana and educated at Berkeley
and Oxford. For the past twenty-five years he has worked as a
psychoanalyst, teaching clinical technique at the Institute of
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory at University College London.
His stories have appeared in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. This
is his first book.
7 June; Bantam Press; $36.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
1 March; Chatto & Windus; $32.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz

If I Close My Eyes Now
Edney Silerstre
If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her
blood on my fingers. If only I had closed
my eyes then, or kept my mouth shut,
not told anyone about our discovery by
the swimming hole, it might not have
stopped our childhood, dead.
We could have gone back to dreaming
about spaceships.
A horrifying discovery by two young
boys while playing in a mango plantation
marks the end of their childhood. As they
finally open their eyes to the adult world,
they see a place where storybook heroes don’t exist but villains and lies
do ...
Edney Silvestre is a Brazilian writer and journalist whose work as a
TV reporter has taken him to Iraq and to the September 11 attacks. He
currently presents a TV show and lives in Rio de Janeiro. His second
novel, HAPPINESS IS EASY, also translated by Nick Caistor, will be
published in Doubleday hardback in spring 2014.
Middle School: How
I Survived Bullies,
Broccoli and Snake Hill
James Patterson
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the
bestselling Middle School series,
is ready for a fun summer at camp
- until he finds out it’s a summer
school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily
makes friends with his troublemaking
cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy
nicknamed Booger-Eater, who puts up
with endless teasing from the other
kids. Rafe soon realises there’s more to
a person than a nickname, though, and Booger-Eater might be the kind
of friend you want on your side when the boys from the Cool Cabin
attack.
This fourth book in the massively popular Middle School series is
an unforgettable summer of hi-jinks, new friends, and surprises, all
told with the hilarity and honesty readers have come to expect from
blockbuster author James Patterson.
James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers
of all time. He is the author of the bestselling series for young readers,
Witch & Wizard (nominated for the 2011 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice
Awards), Maximum Ride, Daniel X and Middle School. This is as well
as writing three of the top detective series around – the Alex Cross,
Women’s Murder Club and Michael Bennett novels – and many other
number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone
thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.
7 June; Doubleday; $37.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
21June; Young Arrow Fiction; $26.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
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Don’t miss these fabulous April/May releases
Inferno
Dan Brown
Strict worldwide Embargo until 14/5/2013
Dan Brown’s new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon
and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred
around one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces.
As Dan Brown comments: “Although I studied Dante’s Inferno as a student, it wasn’t until
recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of
Dante’s work on the modern world. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a
journey deep into this mysterious realm…a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a
few secret passageways.”
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons,
The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips
Exeter Academy, where he has taught English and Creative Writing. He lives in New England.
14 May; Bantam Press; $49.99
Yvonne Thynne: ythynne@randomhouse.co.nz
The Da Vinci Code 10th Anniversary Edition
Dan Brown
The bestselling thriller of all time.
This new release edition of a world renowned story carries with it a few surprises. Hidden at the back is the first chapter of
Dan’s highly anticipated (and secret) novel, Inferno. Get your first look at Robert Langdon’s newest expeditions, while also
getting your hands on a special edition of the book that started a worldwide phenomenon.
25 March; Corgi Adult; $14.99
Yvonne Thynne: ythynne@randomhouse.co.nz
When wealthy plantation owner
Cornelius Allen marries off his
daughter Clarissa, he presents her
with a wedding gift: a young slave
woman called Sarah. It just so happens
that Sarah is Allen’s daughter as well,
the product of a long-term sexual
relationship with his slave Emmeline.
When Clarissa’s husband rejects her
newborn son as illegitimate and sends
Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens,
their return sets in motion a series of
events that will destroy the oncepowerful
family.
The Wedding Gift
Marlen Bodden
Told through the alternating view points of Sarah and Theodora Allen,
Cornelius’s wife, The Wedding Gift shines a glaring light on the brutal
world of slavery in the antebellum American South. Marlen Bodden’s
compelling historical novel explores how planters controlled slaves
and free women alike, propelling them along a taut social tightrope
as they struggled for freedom and autonomy in an oppressive and
patriarchal world.
Marlen Bodden is a lawyer in New York City. She has more than two
decades’ experience representing poor people and low-wage and
immigrant workers, many of whom are severely underpaid, if paid
at all. She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery,
human trafficking, and human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift,
her first novel. Marlen is a graduate of New York University School of
Law and Tufts University.
Sacrifice
Will Jordon
Afghanistan, 2008. A Black Hawk
helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative
is shot down by a surface to air missile,
its lone passenger taken hostage by a
fanatical new insurgent group.
Knowing this man holds information vital
to the ongoing conflict, the CIA bring in
Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd squad
to find and rescue their lost operative.
But nothing is what it seems, and within
hours of arriving in the war-torn country,
Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between
a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a private military
company.
And lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake’s past determined to
settle old scores…
Will Jordan initially wanted to be an actor and while working as an
extra, he was cast as a World War Two soldier in a feature film. After
being put through military bootcamp and taught how to handle
weapons for his role, he decided to do further research and soon fell in
love with works of military history. He then turned his hand to writing
and, in order to shape his first Ryan Drake thriller – Redemption –
visited weapon ranges all over America and Eastern Europe, becoming
something of an arms expert. He lives in Fife with his wife and son, and
is currently writing the third novel in the Ryan Drake series.
17 May; Century; $36.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
17 May; Century; $39.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz

A Wolf in Hindelheim
Jenny Mayhew
A remote German village, 1926.
Something is happening in this place
where nothing happens.
A baby has gone missing.
A police constable has been called.
A doctor suspects a storekeeper.
A son wants to prove himself a man.
A love affair unfolds.
Then the rumours begin to spread.
Once suspicion has taken hold, is anything beyond belief?
Jenny Mayhew has worked as a TV researcher, studied International
Relations in Sri Lanka and written film screenplays on both
contemporary and historical storylines. In 2003, she was nominated
for a BAFTA special achievement award for her screenplay To Kill a King.
Jenny has a doctorate in English literature and has taught creative
writing courses at Oxford, Bristol and Manchester. She now lives in
Edinburgh. A Wolf in Hindelheim is her first novel.
The Outsider
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors took the tennis
world by storm like no player in the
history of the game. A shaggy-haired
working-class kid from the wrong
side of the tracks, he was prepared to
battle for every point, to shout and
scream until he was heard, and he
didn’t care whom he upset in doing
so. He was brash, he was a brat. He
was a crowd-pleaser, a revolutionary.
And he won more tournaments than
any other man. Ever. Only now, on
the anniversary of his last Wimbledon
victory (one of eight Grand Slam singles titles), his legendary tussle
with John McEnroe in 1982, is Connors ready to set the record straight
on what really happened on and off the court. The rivalry with McEnroe,
that frequently threatened to turn violent. His romance with Chris Evert,
which made them the sweethearts of the sport. The escapades with his
partner in crime, Ilie Nastase. The deep roots of the fierce determination
that made him the best player on the planet. This is no genteel memoir
of a pillar of the tennis establishment. Unflinching, hard-hitting,
humorous and passionate, this is the story of the one and only Jimmy
Connors.
Jimmy Connors was born in 1952 and grew up in East St Louis, Illinois,
learning his tennis under the tutelage of his mother Gloria. He went
on to win eight Grand Slam singles titles in total, including Wimbledon
again in 1982, beating John McEnroe in an epic final. He won a record
109 tournaments in his career, was world number one for 268 weeks -
over five years - and was still playing at the highest level in his forties.
17 May; Hutchinson; $34.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
17 May; Bantam Press; $39.99
Jennifer Balle: jballe@randomhouse.co.nz
This House is Haunted
John Boyne
1866, London. As Charles Dickens takes
to a London stage on a foggy Autumn
night to read from his ghost stories, Eliza
Caine and her father settle into their
seats. A huge admirer of the novelist, Mr
Caine has insisted on attending, despite
his worsening cold. Returning home, a
fever hits him and within 24 hours he is
dead, leaving Eliza alone in the world.
A teacher by trade, Eliza notices an
advertisement for a governess position
at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk. Arriving at
Thorpe station she is almost pushed beneath a train but is saved by
two villagers who, although initially friendly, become quiet and uneasy
when she mentions the position she has accepted. Eliza meets the two
children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. To her surprise, they appear
to live there alone. There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to
represent her employer. The children, however, seem to expect her and
show her to her room. From the night she arrives a series of disturbing
incidents take place, each one of which threatens her life, and slowly
Eliza begins to believe that this house is haunted. Eliza refuses to be
frightened away from her position; if she is to survive Gaudlin and save
the children, then she must take on the ghost herself.
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of eight
novels including the international bestsellers Mutiny on the Bounty, The
Absolutist and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas which won two Irish Book
Awards, topped the New York Times bestseller list in the US and was
made into a Miramax feature film. His novels are published in over 40
languages. He lives in Dublin.
3 May; Doubleday; $36.99
Samantha Lee: slee@randomhouse.co.nz
Levels of Life
Julian Barnes
This short, unconventional book is
probably the most moving that Julian
Barnes has ever written.
‘You put together two things that have
not been put together before. And the
world is changed...’ Julian Barnes’s new
book is about ballooning, photography,
love and grief; about putting two things,
and two people, together, and about
tearing them apart. One of the judges
who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker
Prize described him as ‘an unparalleled
magus of the heart’. This book confirms that opinion.
Julian Barnes was born in Leicester and moved to London in 1946. He
is the author of twenty books, and in 2011 won the Man Booker Prize for
The Sense of an Ending. He met Pat Kavanagh in 1978.
Pat Kavanagh was born in South Africa and moved to London in 1964.
She worked in advertising and then, for forty years, as a literary agent.
She married Julian Barnes in 1979, and died in 2008.
5 April; Jonathan Cape; $29.99
Yvonne Thynne: ythynne@randomhouse.co.nz