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THE LAST STRAIGHT FACE

WHO IS CHARLIE CONTI?

Bruce Kennedy Jones & Eric Allison

Claus von Bohlen

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ISBN13: 978-1-905-847-45-7

ISBN13: 978-1-90584-749-5

HARD-HITTING, HARD-BOILED BRITISH CRIME DEBUT SET IN MANCHESTER

Frighteningly realistic… The complex web of contacts and characters are handled masterfully. A rare, fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the hidden world of British villainy.'

Big Issue

June 2008

A LITERARY THRILLER FOR OUR TIME - SEX, DRUGS & IDENTITY THEFT IN MODERN AMERICA

June 2008

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MY FRENCH WHORE

THE PORNOGRAPHER OF VIENNA

Gene Wilder

Lewis Crofts

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Price: £7.99

ISBN13: 978-1-905847-42-6

ISBN13: 978-1-905-84748-8

CLASSIC WILDER - BITTER-SWEET ROMANCE BLENDED WITH OFF-THE-WALL COMEDY

“A winning, winsome novel, rich in historical detail and charmingly narrated.”

Daily Telegraph

June 2008

LAVISH NOVEL ABOUT THE 20TH CENTURY'S MOST DECADENT ARTIST

"Crofts’s début doesn’t shrink from depicting the squalor of Schiele’s existence and powerfully evokes his uncompromising talent."

Guardian

Jun 2008

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Paperback

Price:£7.99

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ISBN13: 978-1-905847-40-2

ISBN13: 978-1-905-84747-1

'FILLED WITH HILARIOUS STORIES,
EMBARRASSING INCIDENTS AND WACKY OBSERVATIONS… A PERFECT COMBINATION
FOR ESCAPISM'

Famous Magazine

"Better than walking the rooms of the world's most fabulously expensive hotels... The ultimate guide to luxe."

OVER 50S LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
(Australian Equivalent of SAGA)

June 2008

HILARIOUS SEND-UP OF POPULAR CULTURE FROM A FRESH NEW AMERICAN VOICE

“Wickedly ingenious . . . Goebel's ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page”

Boston Globe

July 2008

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THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

JAMAICA

Gianrico Carofiglio

Malcolm Knox

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ISBN13: 978-1905847-51-8

ISBN13: 978-1-905-84754-9

'A STUNNER… AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL'

Sunday Times

"A fascinating, succinct and stylish thriller from Italy"

The Guardian

July 2008

COMPULSIVE READING FROM AN UNFLINCHING OBSERVER OF FALLIBILITY, HYPOCRISY AND THWARTED AMBITION

‘Knox is quite simply a fabulous writer

Literary Review

July 2008

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	AUTHORS GALLERY

	GENE WILDER GENE WILDER has appeared in, co-written and produced over 30 films and made countless TV and stage appearances. He is perhaps best known for playing the eponymous lead in 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and his many collaborations with the comedian Richard Pryor and the writer/director Mel Brooks.His collaboration with Brooks led to his two Oscar nominations, as supporting actor in The Producers in 1968 and as co-writer (with Brooks) of Young Frankenstein in 1974. His autobiography, Kiss Me Like A Stranger, was published in 2005.

	DAVID DOWNING David Downing is the author of a political thriller, two alternative histories and a number of books on military and political history and other subjects as diverse as Neil Young and Russian football.

NEWS

DE NIRO'S GAME

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage wins the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2008 - largest prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English, with a €100,000 jackpot!

Rawi will be available for interview in the UK from the 9th - 14th July and will be appearing at the London Literature Festival in association with Diaspora Dialogues on Thursday, 10th July

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