Serpent's Tail - Spring 2012

Contents

Serpent’s Tail2–3 A Stone’s Throw Fiona Shaw4–5 On the Floor Aifric Campbell6–7 The Cold, Cold Ground Adrian McKinty8–9 A Kind of Eden Amanda Smyth10 Rocks in the Belly Jon Bauer 11 The Girl in Berlin Elizabeth Wilson12 Memoirs of a Porcupine Alain Mabanckou13 Black Bazaar Alain Mabanckou14 School for Patriots Martin Kohan15 Nothing But Fear Knud Romer16 A Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrère17 Other Lives But Mine Emmanuel Carrère18 In Praise of Love Alain Badiou19 From Dictatorship to Democracy Gene Sharp20 Falling Glass Adrian McKinty21 I, Anna Elsa Lewin22 The Reinvention of Love Helen Humphreys23 Double Fault Lionel Shriver24 Secret Affairs Mark Curtis25 Fear Gabriel Chevallier

The Clerkenwell Press26 Ru Kim Thúy27 Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks

28–31 Backlist 32–33 Contact information

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Serpent’s Tail3A Exmouth HousePine StreetLondon EC1R 0JH020 7841 [email protected]

Introduction

After twenty-five years at the helm of Serpent’s Tail, Pete Ayrton is stepping back and is now Editor at Large – which means that as his successor, I have the privilege of welcoming you to our spring 2012 list.

Spanning centuries and continents, it’s an eclectic list – and yet it occurs to me that there’s a theme, somehow. From Fiona Shaw’s novel, A Stone’s Throw, which opens with a young woman in wartime boarding a ship bound for Africa, via The Cold, Cold Ground, the first book in Adrian McKinty’s new trilogy, through to Gene Sharp’s treaty on non-violent protest, From Dictatorship To Democracy, many of the books here are concerned with war, in one way or another. They’re stories of right and wrong; of violence, betrayal and, in some cases, redemption. They are also, without exception, stories of great power – in all senses.

I hope you enjoy them, and wish you happy – and peaceful – reading.

Sam HumphreysPublisher

‘You must choose how you live your life. And as you are my son, William, I tell you that you, and you alone, must do the choosing.’

A Stone’s ThrowFiona Shaw

What if following your heart takes you somewhere you just can’t go?

Like everyone, Meg has made choices over the course of her life; for the most part, she’s proud of her decisions, but that doesn’t mean she’s not without regrets, not haunted by questions of what might have been . . .

What if her older brother hadn’t gone missing when she was just a child? What if she’d married for love, rather than duty? What if she told her son why it matters so much that he, unlike her, listens to his heart?

‘Emotionally charged and compelling, it draws you into a rich world of secrets and passion’ Jackie Kay on Tell it to the Bees

�•�Set in England and Africa and opening during WWII

•�Will appeal to readers of The Outcast or Brooklyn

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Fiona Shaw is the author of three previous novels, The Sweetest Thing, The Picture She Took and Tell it to the Bees. She has also written a memoir, Out Of Me. She lives in York.

Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback240ppISBN: 9781846688317eISBN: 9781847657770AprilUK Com ex Can

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‘And for a long, long time after the Big F**king Ticket, things had all the appearance of being on an upward trend. I met Stephen and fell in love, the ’87 crash came and went, stock markets kept roaring ahead and I was coining it at Steiner’s. So who could have guessed just how much trouble lay down the road?’

On the FloorAifric Campbell

The story of a life in crisis, set in the world of high finance

At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy is a major player at Steiner’s investment bank in London, doing business with a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong. For five years Geri has had it all, but in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, her life starts to unravel – on a grand scale.

‘Aifric Campbell is one of my favourite Irish novelists’ Joseph O’Connor

•��Aifric Campbell worked for Morgan Stanley and was the first woman MD on the trading floor in London

•��An inside take on the world of high finance, showing the start of the 2008 meltdown

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Aifric Campbell was born in Ireland and grew up in Dublin. She spent thirteen years as an investment banker in London and now lives in Sussex with her husband and son. Her previous two novels, The Semantics of Murder and The Loss Adjustor, are also published by Serpent's Tail.

Fiction£12.99Royal Trade Paperback256ppISBN: 9781846688089eISBN: 9781847658012MarchUK Com ex Can

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‘There’s good news and bad news,’ Chief Inspector Brennan said. ‘What’s the good news, sir?’ I asked. ‘It’s nearby. You can walk from there.’ ‘What’s the bad news?’ ‘It’s nasty.’

The Cold, Cold Ground Adrian McKinty

Meet Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy

Northern Ireland. Spring 1981. Hunger strikes. Riots. Power cuts. A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera. A young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder. On the surface, these events are unconnected, but then things – and people – aren’t always what they seem.

Detective Sergeant Duffy is trying to get to the bottom of it all, but it’s no easy job – especially for a Catholic policeman at the height of the Troubles.

‘Unquestionably talented’ Sunday Times

•��The David Peace of Northern Ireland

•�The first book in a new trilogy

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Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award. Adrian lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

Crime Fiction£12.99Royal Trade Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846688225eISBN: 9781847657954JanuaryWorld

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‘From the veranda, the tall trees are dark, their branches long and feathery. There are no other houses, just this stretch of tended land and sea. The sky is pale, dim, and soon it will be dark. It is Miriam who spots the boy: a tall black figure running out of the darkness.’

A Kind of EdenAmanda Smyth

Terrible things happen everywhere – even in paradise

A retired police officer takes a job in Trinidad, travelling across the world to work alongside the local force to eradicate corruption and bring down soaring levels of violent crime.

He falls in love with the island and rediscovers himself. When his family arrive for a holiday, he plans to tell them how things have changed; that he won’t be coming back. But as well as great beauty, the Caribbean can be a place of grave danger. One night he forgets this and the result has terrifying consequences for him and his family.

‘Sings with life, texture and verve’ Daily Mail on Black Rock

•��For fans of The Other Hand

•�Black Rock was selected for Waterstone’s New Voices

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Amanda Smyth is Irish/ Trinidadian. Her short stories have been published in New Writing, London Magazine and broadcast on Radio 4. Her first novel, Black Rock, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2009.

Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback288ppISBN: 9781846688133eISBN: 9781847658043JuneUK Com ex Can

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Jon Bauer was born in Surrey and now lives in Australia. He has written short stories and plays for stage and radio. Rocks in the Belly is his first novel.

What happens when a mother’s love isn’t enough?

You’re eight years old. An only child. You love your parents, but you’re convinced you’re not enough for your mother because she fosters other people’s kids. You’ve learnt to cope, just about, with how this makes you feel – but then a boy called Robert arrives, and he and your Mum seem to connect in a way you never have. You hate him for it.

And her.

And one day you do something really bad to teach them both a lesson – but all of you have to live with the consequences.

‘Intelligent and funny’ J. M. Coetzee

•��Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

•��Winner of the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction in Australia

Rocks in the BellyJon Bauer

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Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback288ppISBN: 9781846688454eISBN:9781847658111FebruaryUK Com ex Can, ANZ

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The Girl in BerlinElizabeth Wilson

Which side are you on?

Summer 1951.

The Cold War is at its height.

Burgess and Maclean have just disappeared when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party who has been exiled in Germany for several years, arrives back in England with news: he has fallen in love with a girl in Berlin. Then a German scientist, living in England for the past two decades, is found dead, and it emerges that Harris was one of the last people to see him alive . . .

‘First class . . . the portrait of Austerity Britain is masterful and the most fascinating character in this impressive work is the capital itself’ Sunday Telegraph on War Damage

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Elizabeth Wilson is a researcher and writer. She is the author of several non–fiction books. Her novels The Twilight Hour and War Damage are also published by Serpent’s Tail.

Crime Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback240ppISBN: 9781846688263eISBN:9781847658081MayWorld

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Outlandish and surreal, a murderous porcupine tells all

All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. When Kibandi reached the age of eleven, he met his, the eponymous porcupine.

Obliged to obey his master’s instructions, the porcupine is accomplice to Kibandi’s murderous rampage. Together they attack anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. But now Kibandi is dead, and the porcupine, free of his master, is ready to tell his story.

Memoirs of a PorcupineAlain Mabanckou

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Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback160ppISBN: 9781846687686eISBN: 9781847656520MayWorld ex USA, CanTranslated by Helen Stevenson

•��Winner of the Prix Renaudot in France

•��Mabanckou was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Broken Glass

Black BazaarAlain Mabanckou

A riotous account of a black dandy in Paris

The Buttologist is on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Hybrid, taking their daughter with her. A racist neighbour is spying on him and stirring up trouble, while his drinking buddies constantly pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows.

Still, at least he knows he has style, bags of it (crocodile skin suitcases and anaconda Westons, in fact). But is flaunting his sartorial chic enough to cut it in the City of Light?

‘Irreverent wit and madcap energy’ Giles Foden

‘Africa’s Samuel Beckett’ The Economist

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Alain Mabanckou writes novels, plays and poetry. He teaches French literature at UCLA in California. His previous novels, African Psycho, Broken Glass and Memoirs of a Porcupine are also published by Serpent’s Tail.

Fiction£8.99B Format Trade Paperback224ppISBN: 9781846687778eISBN: 9781847656575MayWorld EnglishTranslated by Sarah Ardizzone

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Martin Kohan was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, where he now lives. He is a novelist and essay writer. He teaches in Patagonia at the University of Trelew. His previous novel, Seconds Out, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2010.

Cruelty in an Argentine boarding school during the Falklands War

An assistant in Buenos Aires’ most prestigious state school, Maria Teresa Cornejo’s job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them – an activity which gives her strange pleasure. Found out by her supervisor, she is not fired but forced into colluding with him.

Tense and uncompromising, School for Patriots is a shocking exposure of moral degradation in Argentine society – where everyone is encouraged to denounce their neighbours, and where political and sexual power play is rife.

•��Winner of the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain

•��Kohan is one of the best of a new generation of Argentine writers

School for PatriotsMartin Kohan

New Title

Fiction£8.99B Format Trade Paperback256ppISBN:9781846687433eISBN:9781847656452JuneWorld EnglishTranslated by Nick Caistor

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Nothing But FearKnud Romer

For one young boy, the Second World War lives on

The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to tear a town – and a young boy’s life – apart. Knud is growing up in Faster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over but the Germans are still hated and Knud has a German mother.

Persecuted at school, he retreats into the eccentric world of his family’s history – but he can’t escape the fact that, for him, his parents and his grandparents, the war is still being fought.

•��Prize-winning first novel translated all over Europe

•�A vivid portrayal of the consequences of World War Two

•��Author starred in Lars von Trier’s The Idiots

New Title

Knud Romer was born in 1960 in Faster, ‘a town so small that it is over before it starts’. When not writing, he acts. His credits include The Idiots by Lars von Trier and Allegro by Christopher Boe.

Fiction£8.99B Format Trade Paperback128ppISBN:9781846687143eISBN: 9781847656421AprilWorld English ex USA, CanTranslated by John Mason

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An unsparingly truthful account of love and betrayal

Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, A Russian Novel traces Carrère’s pursuit of two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying.

Elegant and passionate, A Russian Novel weaves the strands of Carrère’s story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, emotional tour de force, A Russian Novel is a brilliant, shocking story.

‘Brims with ideas and incidents’ Guardian

‘The sort of fact-fiction blurring that fans of W. G. Sebald and Geoff Dyer will appreciate’ Independent

A Russian NovelEmmanuel Carrère

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Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback256ppISBN: 9781846686740eISBN: 9781847653093MarchUK Com ex CanTranslated by Linda Coverdale

Other Lives But MineEmmanuel Carrère

A story of tragedy, recovery and redemption

In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the rushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft.

Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two families – shattered but ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is a poignant narrative of love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, an intimate and reverent look at the beauty and nobility of ordinary lives.

‘As a storyteller Carrère is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realise the hold he’s got on you when you attempt to pull away’ Junot Díaz

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Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and biographer, is the award- winning author of The Adversary, Class Trip, The Mustache and A Russian Novel. He lives in Paris.

Fiction£11.99Demy Trade Paperback240ppISBN: 9781846687655eISBN: 9781847656513MarchUK Com ex CanTranslated by Linda Coverdale

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Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. A lifelong communist, he is the author of The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil and The Communist Hypothesis.

A new century, new threats to love . . .

Love without risk is like war without death – but threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism, and caught between consumerism and casual sex, love today is in danger of withering on the vine.

Taking on contemporary ‘dating agency’ ideas of love that revolve around instant pleasure and non-commitment, Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Marx to form a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex.

‘Politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical’ Terry Eagleton

•��Dubbed the ‘heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser’ by the New Statesman

In Praise of LoveAlain Badiou with Nicolas Truong

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Philosophy£12.99Demy Trade Paperback160ppISBN: 9781846687792eISBN: 9781847656582AprilWorld EnglishTranslated by Peter Bush

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From Dictatorship to DemocracyGene Sharp

Inspiring democracy movements across the world

From Dictatorship to Democracy was originally a short pamphlet written as a guide to peaceful demonstration. Surreptitiously handed out among uprisings the world over, it has subsequently been translated into thirty-one languages.

Likened to Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and Mao Tse Tung’s Little Red Book in its historical importance, it played a pivotal role in the uprisings of the Arab Spring and has become the definitive how-to guide for the non-violent twenty-first century radical.

‘Scholarly, readable and highly relevant’ Tony Benn

•��Sharp advises governments around the world

•��Lists 200 methods of non-violent resistance

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Gene Sharp is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He was previously at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, and was awarded the Courage of Conscience award in 2008.

Politics/Current Affairs£5.99A Format Paperback160ppISBN: 9781846688393eISBN: 9781847657848JanuaryWorld English

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Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award. Adrian lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

McKinty on his home turf

Killian makes a living enforcing other people’s laws, collecting debts, dealing out threats and finding people who do not wish to be found. But when Richard Coulter, a prominent Irish businessman, hires Killian to find his ex-wife and children, Killian realises some people have good reasons for wanting to stay hidden – and has some tough decisions to make.

Witty, violent, fast-paced and evocative, this is McKinty at his best.

‘Ireland’s answer to James Ellroy . . . this is another winner, with pathos, insight, sardonic humour and lyrical descriptions’ Guardian

‘A streetwise, energetic gunslinger of a writer’ Irish Times

Falling GlassAdrian McKinty

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I, AnnaElsa Lewin

Blacking out in a stranger’s apartment is just the beginning

Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds herself late at night, in a strange man’s apartment.

Bernie, a police detective, is called to the scene of a brutal murder, but is distracted by his encounter with Anna. He pursues her, but when they finally meet, she has no recollection of the night their paths first crossed . . .

•��Now a major feature film, starring Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling and Hayley Atwell

•��Directed by Barnaby Southcombe (As If, Teachers)

Film Tie-In

Elsa Lewin is a psychoanalyst who lives and practises in New York. I, Anna was her first novel, originally published in 1984.

Crime Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback Original304ppISBN: 9781846688300eISBN: 9781847657961AprilUK Com ex Can

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Helen Humphreys is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Humphreys’ first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998 and won the City of Toronto Book Award.

Married to a great man, in love with a man like no other . . .

When Charles meets Victor Hugo, he is swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words become swords. But the focus of Charles’ attraction quickly moves from Victor to his wife Adèle, and a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal.

Drawing a rich portrait of Paris during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, where duels are fought and cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine, The Reinvention of Love tells the story of a passion that lasts a lifetime, a friendship that doesn’t, and a secret that can never be revealed . . .

‘Witty, sad and gorgeous in equal measure’Emma Donoghue

‘This tender, life-affirming novel made me contemplate love in a whole new way’ Amanda Smyth

The Reinvention of LoveHelen Humphreys

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Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback272ppISBN: 9781846687990eISBN: 9781847657602JuneUK Com ex Can

Double FaultLionel Shriver

What price do you pay for prizing success over love?

Ever since she picked up a racquet, tennis has been Willy’s one love. That is, until she meets Eric. He too wants to play professionally, but it’s an experiment for him, not a passion.

Her coach warns her that marriage will put her game at risk, but Eric is irresistible. Then, as Eric’s ranking climbs, rivalry turns to resentment, and Willy risks losing everything.

‘Shriver has a terrible gift for laying bare for us the emotions that lie just beneath the skin’ Financial Times

‘A brilliant tale of doomed love’ Observer

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Lionel Shriver’s books include the Orange Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin. Sheis widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

Fiction£7.99B Format Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846688478JuneWorld ex USA, Can

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Updated Edition Secret AffairsMark Curtis

Revelatory investigation into Britain’s secret collaboration with radical Islam

In this ground-breaking book – updated with new material on the Arab Spring – Mark Curtis reveals the covert history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups.

Secret Affairs shows how governments since the 1940s have connived with militant forces to control oil resources and overthrow governments. The story of how Britain has nurtured the rise of global terrorism has never before been told.

‘Sensational in the best sense’ John Pilger

‘Unearthing this largely hidden history is a contribution of the highest significance, and could hardly be more timely’ Noam Chomsky

Politics/Current Affairs£9.99B Format Paperback448ppISBN: 9781846687648eISBN: 9781847653017MarchWorld English

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Mark Curtis’ previous books include Web of Deceit and Unpeople. He has worked in the field of international development for fourteen years, including as Head of Global Advocacy and Policy at Christian Aid and Head of Policy at ActionAid.

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A rediscovered – and controversial – classic of war literature

It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he’s called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he refuses to follow his platoon.

Instead, he is sent to Artois, where he experiences the relentless death and violence of the trenches. His reprieve finally comes when he is wounded, evacuated and hospitalised.

‘Of the utmost urgency and relevance today’ John Berger

FearGabriel Chevallier

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•�Comparable to All Quiet on the Western Front in its depiction of the horror and futility of war

•�With an introduction by John Berger

Born in Lyon, Chevallier was called up at the start of the First World War and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. Fear was first published in 1930. Chevallier is best known for his satirical novel, Clochemerle (1934), which was translated into twenty–six languages and sold several million copies.

Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback320ppISBN: 9781846687273eISBN: 9781847656438FebruaryWorld English Translated by Malcolm Imrie

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RuKim Thúy

A lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec.

Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.

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Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.

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Fiction£8.99B Format Paperback160ppISBN: 9781846685484eISBN: 9781847658029AprilUK Com ex CanTranslated by Sheila Fischman

•��Winner of the Governor General’s Award

•�A runaway bestseller in Quebec and sold to fifteen countries around the world

•�Author is a former boat person who now lives in Canada

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Lost Memory of SkinRussell Banks

Russell Banks is president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He lives in upstate New York.

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Fiction£12.99Royal Trade Paperback352ppISBN: 9781846685767eISBN: 9781847657855MarchUK Com ex Can

A masterful work from a great American writer

Suspended in a strange version of limbo, the Kid must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. On probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a university sociologist. The two men forge a tentative partnership, but then the Professor’s past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world.

‘Of the many writers working in the great traditiontoday, one of the best is Russell Banks’ Jonathan Franzen

‘The uncompromising moral voice of our time’ Michael Ondaatje

‘Tackles hard subjects with verve and courage’ Margaret Atwood

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To Live Outsidethe LawLeaf Fielding

‘This book is fucking good’ Howard Marks

9781846687969£12.99Trade Paperback

Dust DevilsRoger Smith

‘Brilliant pared-down style’ Cape Times

9781846687952£7.99Paperback

Black By DesignPauline Black

‘Gritty, witty and compelling’ Elle


Stabat MaterTiziano Scarpa

‘Disquieting, lyrical and intensely authentic’ Michelle Lovric

9781846687693£7.99Paperback

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Far SouthDavid Enrique Spellman

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We Need to Talk About KevinLionel Shriver

‘Stunning’ Daily Mail

9781846688065£7.99Paperback

TarantulaThierry Jonquet

Filmed as The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodovar

9781846687945£7.99Paperback

Repeat It Today With TearsAnne Peile

Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2011

9781846687471£7.99Paperback

Half Blood BluesEsi Edugyan

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011


The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s WivesLola Shoneyin

Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2011

9781846687495£7.99Paperback

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Recently Published

Black Water RisingAttica Locke

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010

9781846687532£7.99Paperback

BlackwaterJeremy Scahill

‘A triumph of investigative reporting’ Naomi Klein

9781846686528£8.99Paperback

White BicyclesJoe Boyd

‘The best book about music I have read in years’Brian Eno

9781852424893£8.99Paperback

Open Veins of Latin AmericaEduardo Galeano

‘Immensely generous and humane’ Arundhati Roy

9781846687426£9.99Paperback

Red RidingDavid Peace

‘The evil twin of Life on Mars’ Guardian

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Black RockAmanda Smyth

‘Sings with life, texture and verve’ Daily Mail

9781846687020£7.99Paperback

Boy AJonathan Trigell

BAFTA winning film stars Andrew Garfield

9781846686627£7.99Paperback

The PassportHerta Müller

Winner of the Nobel Prize 2009

9781852421397£7.99Paperback

The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa

‘Like nothing else’ Philip Pullman

9781846687358£7.99Paperback

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Broken GlassAlain Mabanckou

Shortlisted for the Independent ForeignFiction Prize

9781846688157£7.99Paperback

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Serpent's Tail - Spring 2012