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  NEW FROM OLD STREET
   
  THE LAST STRAIGHT FACE     WHO IS CHARLIE CONTI?
Bruce Kennedy Jones & Eric Allison    

Claus von Bohlen

  Paperback     Paperback
Price: £11.99 Price: £9.99
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.'

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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

  Paperback     Paperback
Price: £7.99 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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  HOTEL HEAVEN     TORTURE THE ARTIST
Matthew Brace     Joey Goebel
  Paperback     Paperback
Price:£7.99 Price: £7.99
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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Price: £7.99 Price: £9.99
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.

 
     
     
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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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