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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
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7 June; Doubleday; $37.99
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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
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