International Bookseller 2-2018

August / Fiction
Larison, John: Whiskey When We‘re Dry.
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn
Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her
family‘s homestead. Jess must outmaneuver those who
underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in
her own right. From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty
and lyrical American epic about a young woman who
disguises herself as a boy and heads west.
400 S, Format 9 in. ISBN: 978‐0‐7352‐2044‐7 (Penguin US;
Viking) GEB
69 15 67 67 24,95 € (D)
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Ma, Ling: Severance.
An offbeat office novel turns apocalyptic satire as a
young woman transforms: orphan to worker-bee to
survivor. Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical
proportions sweeps New York. Enter a group of survivors,
led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to
a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will
have everything they need to start society anew.
304 S, ISBN: 978‐0‐374‐26159‐7 (Macmillan US) GEB
69 59 30 91 25,95 € (D)
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Markley, Stephen: Ohio.
The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel
set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio—a
region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis,
and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—depicting one
feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former
classmates converge on their hometown, each with a
mission, all haunted by the ghosts of their shared histories.
Export, Trade Paperback, 496 S, rough front; 1‐c
endpapers;, Format 234.95 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐982100‐09‐4
(Simon & Schuster US; Simon & Schuster) KT
69 14 59 04 17,95 € (D)
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McDermott, Alice: The Ninth Hour. Nominiert: Kirkus
Reviews Best Book of the Year 2017.
From the National Book Award-winning author comes a
luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations
of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn
– for those who love Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Anne
Tyler. Alice McDermott tells a story that is at once wholly
individual and universal in its understanding of the human
condition.
256 S, Format 7.795276 in. ISBN: 978‐1‐4088‐5463‐1
(Bloomsbury Trade; Bloomsbury Publishing) KT
69 13 01 57 12,50 € (D)
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Miller, Andrew: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free.
1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in
Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain‘s
disastrous campaign against Napoleon‘s forces in Spain.
Gradually he recovers his health, but not his peace of mind
– he cannot face his memories. Deserting from his duty, he
sets out for the Hebrides, with the vague intent of reviving
his musical interests and collecting local folksongs.
432 S, Format 234 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐4447‐8468‐8 (Hodder
& Stoughton; Sceptre) KT
69 12 81 87 18,45 € (D)
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Peebles, Frances De Pontes: The Air You Breathe. A
Novel.
Nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working on a sugar
plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who
changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a
wealthy sugar baron, is thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly
different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared
mischief. A moving portrait of a lifelong friendship and
considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our
lives.
464 S, ISBN: 978‐0‐525‐54023‐6 (Penguin US) KT
69 38 79 12 16,95 € (D)
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Pentland, Louise: Wilde About The Girl. Sunday Times
NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Louise Pentland is back!
After the year from hell, Robin Wilde is ready for whatever
life throws at her. When a thrilling opportunity at work
arises, Robin is more than excited to step up. But with a
heart-broken best friend, and a daughter learning horrible
attitudes, life is about to throw quite the curve ball. She‘ll
need to make some pretty brave choices if she‘s going to
stop everything falling apart . . .
400 S, Format 9.2 in. ISBN: 978‐1‐78576‐463‐9 (Bonnier
Zaffre UK; Zaffre) KT
68 83 61 17 15,95 € (D)
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Prescott, Shaun: The Town.
When a writer arrives in this New South Wales town to research vanishing
Australian settlements, he is plunged into an abyss of weirdness from which
he – and the town itself – might never recover. Magnetic, strange, and
absurdly slippery, this is a portrait ofoblivion from Australia‘s answer to Lynch,
Calvino, and Kafka.
ISBN: 978‐0‐571‐34561‐8 (Faber & Faber, London) KT
69 70 33 38 15,95 € (D)
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Quindlen, Anna: Alternate Side.
Anna Quindlen follows her highly-praised novel Miller‘s
Valley - `reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout‘s Olive
Kitteridge‘, Elisabeth Egan – with a captivating novel
about money, class and self-discovery set in the heart
of New York where the tensions in a tight-knit neighbourhood-and a seemingly
happy marriage-are exposed by an unexpected act of violence.
Export/Airside, Paperback ‐ Trade paperback (UK), 400 S, Format 234 mm.
ISBN: 978‐1‐4711‐7574‐9 (Simon & Schuster UK; Scribner UK) KT
69 14 41 24 15,95 € (D)
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Riordan, Kate: The Stranger. A gripping story of secrets
and lies for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel
Society and Dear Mrs Bird.
1940, Cornwall, England. Penhallow Hall shelters a handful
of Land Girls, sent to the coast to avoid the horrors of
London‘s Blitz. But the beautiful, arrogant and bored Diana
Devlin can‘t resist the temptation to stir up long-buried
secrets. When a young woman‘s body is found on the
shore, the promised safety of the Hall is shattered. Was it
simply a tragic accident or did mischief end in murder?
320 S, Format 198 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐4059‐2260‐9 (Penguin UK; Penguin) KT
69 14 58 12 11,10 € (D)
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