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South Bank Show to feature David Peace

11 May 2008

News Item Image Text Serpent's Tail author David Peace is to be the subject of a South Bank Show special this coming weekend. read more

Download a BOY A guide for reading groups here today

24 April 2008

News Item Image Text It's a book that refuses to leave you once you've started it, and one of the few that deserves that much bandied about term - unputdownable. read more

The Times names 50 best crime writers - 4 are Serpent's Tail authors

21 April 2008

News Item Image Text The respected crime critic Marcel Berlins has compiled a list of the top 50 crime writers for the Times of London. read more

Andrew Garfield wins best actor Bafta for BOY A

21 April 2008

News Item Image Text Rising star Andrew Garfield beat strong competition at last night's Bafta awards to walk away with the Best Actor Prize. read more

SWANSEA TERMINAL is longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year prize

17 March 2008

News Item Image Text The second book from Robert Lewis, SWANSEA TERMINAL follows his debut THE LAST LLANELLI TRAIN, both of which feature hard-drinking, tough-living private detective Robert Llewellyn, or Magnum to his friends. read more

BOY A is the World Book Day - Book To Talk About

7 March 2008

News Item Image Text BOY A by Jonathan Trigell has been voted best "book to talk about" in a public poll organised as part of World Book Day. read more

Old Devil Moon shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards

18 February 2008

News Item Image Text The Horror Writers' Association of America has announced the shortlists for the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards. read more

CASTORP is shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

25 January 2008

News Item Image Text After his earlier novel, MERCEDES-BENZ making the IFF shortlist in 2006, we are delighted to announce that Pawel Huelle's CASTORP has been included on the longlist. read more

CRUEL POETRY is shortlisted for an Edgar

21 January 2008

News Item Image Text The prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Awards are the annual prizes nominated by the Mystery Writers of America organisation. Vicki Hendricks' erotic noir thriller, CRUEL POETRY has been nominated in the 'Best Paperback Original Category'. read more

And the winner is... Books of the Year mentions

20 December 2007

News Item Image Text It's annual round-up time, when newspapers and magazines ask reviewers, writers and all-round mavens to nominate their books of the year. We've had an embarassment of riches this year - mentions include... read more


Events

Lionel Shriver at the Guardian Newsroom

12 May 2008

News Item Image Text We Need to Talk about Kevin is this month's Guardian Review Book Club choice, and Lionel Shriver will be at the Newsroom on Farringdon Rd to talk about the book. read more

Joe Boyd recalls May 1968

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News Item Image Text As part of the events to mark the 40th anniversary of May 1968, Joe Boyd will be taking part in a special panel event at the South Bank (Purcell Room). read more

The Prophet Murders Event - a Polari Evening

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News Item Image Text The charmingly entertaining Mehmet Murat Somer is in London shortly to launch The Prophet Murders. read more

Alex Wheatle appears at the African Caribbean Library in Battersea

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News Item Image Text The Dirty South is set in Brixton, south London, so it seems fitting to mark publication with an event close by. read more


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Win copies of THE SEMANTICS OF MURDER

21 April 2008

News Item Image Text We've got ten copies of The Semantics of Murder to give away to the first correct answers to this month's newsletter competition question. read more

Get 25% off when you order books for your book club

15th February 2008

We know that we need to talk about Kevin, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. read more


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The Dirty South

Alex Wheatle

It’s a generation on from Wheatle’s East of Acre Lane, and the soundtrack has changed from reggae to hip hop, but the career options open to young black males are still brutally limited.
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Small Crimes

Dave Zeltserman

A superb noir thriller is the UK debut of hot new talent Dave Zeltserman. read more

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The Prophet Murders

Mehmet Murat Somer

Something’s gone seriously wrong in Istanbul - a killer is on the loose, and transvestites are being murdered, the modus operandi becoming increasingly bizarre with each death. Our protagonist – f... read more

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Skin Lane

Neil Bartlett

Shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award, Skin Lane is part fairy-tale, part hair-raising thriller. read more

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Fortunate Son

Walter Mosley

In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune, Tommy is a sickly black boy, cursed with he... read more

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Venice is a Fish

Tiziano Scarpa

Built on an inverted forest, paved with a tortoiseshell of boulders, Venice is a maze of tiny alleys, bridges and squares. Tiziano Scarpa wanders through the city, recounting the customs and secrets that only Venetians know. read more

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In Defence of Atheism

Michel Onfray

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds. From Christian anti-abortion campaigns to suicide bombers claiming the righteousness of Islam, ... read more

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African Psycho

Alain Mabanckou

First UK publication of one of Africa’s most talented living authors. read more

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The Gospel According to Luke

Emily Maguire

Aggie Grey is a jaded sexual health counsellor who finds herself having to defend her abortion clinic against the attacks of a radical new fundamentalist sect. Pastor Luke Butler is young, idealistic ... read more

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The Isle of Dogs

Daniel Davies

Anytown, England. Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even flashier girlfriends) and moved back to his home town and his paren... read more

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The Semantics of Murder

Aifric Campbell

Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalysis practice. But the darker ... read more

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Cleaning Up

Tania Glyde

A tour of one woman's life with alcohol, and why she decided to give it up. read more

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The Belly of the Atlantic

Fatou Diome

Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother, Madické, counts on her to get him to France, the promised land where foreign footballers become world ... read more

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