Spring 2017

FICTION | MARCH | MACLEHOSE
THE AWKWARD SQUAD
SOPHIE HÉNAFF
Translated by Sam Gordon
A new crime series with a difference.
A brilliant young officer returns from suspension
and discovers that she has been tasked with
heading up a squad of misfit police officers to
investigate cold cases from decades past.
But whilst she is initially sceptical of her new role,
before long, Anne Capestan and her team will have
discovered curious links between a handful of old
cases that will set them on the hunt for a killer.
Crime (FF)
Trade Paperback £13.99 9780857055767
320 pages
Ebook 9780857055743
Not For Sale: USA & CAN
Sophie Hénaff is a French writer and former
Lyonnaise bar owner. The Awkward Squad,
her first novel, has won her numerous crime
awards.
9 MARCH 2017
THE LONGEST NIGHT
OTTO DE KAT
Translated by Laura Watkinson
Modern & Contemporary Fiction (FA)
Hardback £14.99 9780857056085
193 x 135mm 240 pages
Ebook 9780857056078
Not For Sale: USA & CAN
A restrained yet monumental epic-in-miniature
by one of the most elegant and lucid of modern
European writers.
Emma Verweij, an elderly woman in Rotterdam,
recalls forgotten memories of her past in
Nazi Berlin during the Second World War.
Long-suppressed flashbacks of the tragedy of
war, lost friends and her first husband crowd
her consciousness as Otto de Kat deftly distils
momentous events of 20th-century history into
the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and
the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare,
melancholy beauty.
Otto de Kat is the pen name of a Dutch publisher,
whose novels include Julia, Man on the Move and
News from Berlin.
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