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What Love: About the Author

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:14 +0000

Paul Meyer was raised in a small community in the Sonoran Desert just west of Tombstone, Arizona. After graduating from Northern Arizona University with a degree in English he moved to Chicago where he wrote television ad campaigns for companies such as Coca Cola, Reebok, General Motors and Sony. He is married and lives with his wife and daughter in Bath, where he is completing a PhD in creative writing at Bath Spa University. This is his first novel.

Song For Night: Reviews

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:39:59 +0000

‘Chris Abani writes like an angel. If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.’ Dave Eggers

Song For Night: Excerpts

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:37:24 +0000

Daylight comes like rust corroding night. It is cool from last night's rain and I stretch slowly, rested for the first time in months.

Song For Night: About the Author

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:36:20 +0000

Chris Abani is a Nigerian poet and novelist and winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, as well as a PEN Freedom to Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He lives and teaches in California.

Other books by same author:
The Virgin of Flames (Vintage)
Becoming Abigail (Akashic)
GraceLand (Picador)
Kalakuta Republic
(Saqi, 978-086356-322-5)

Song For Night: Book Info

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:34:17 +0000

978-1-84659-057-3
Fiction
September 2008
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
160pp
£7.99

Song For Night

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:28:17 +0000

Chris Abani

Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12 his vocal cords are cut to prevent him from screaming and giving away his platoon's presence, should he be blown up.

Awaking after an explosion to find that he's lost his platoon, he traces his steps back through abandoned villages and rotting corpses – and through his own memories – in search of his comrades. The horror of past events is relived and gradually come to terms with as he finds some glimmers of hope and beauty in this nightmarish place.

The Ministry of Pain: Reviews

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:01:24 +0000

'A disturbing read that should have you in its thrall.' The Times

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: Reviews

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:00:32 +0000

'This touching roadtrip story was translated into English for the first time last year, and was quickly hailed as a classic' Sunday Times

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: Book Info

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:59:16 +0000

978-1-84659-048-1
Travelogue
19 June 2008
Paperback with flaps
13 x 20 cm
220pp
£9.99

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: About the Author

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:58:09 +0000

Julio Cortazar was born in Belgium in 1914 to Argentine parents. They returned to Buenos Aires when he was four. One of the true giants of twentieth-century literature, Cortazar was a tireless defender of Latin American self-determination and many of his books were banned in Argentina. He died in Paris in 1984. Carol Dunlop was a novelist and translator.

The Erotic Potential of my Wife: Reviews

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:32:46 +0000

'Absurd, funny, eccentric... this little world has seduced critics, filmmakers and an ever-larger public.' Le Monde

The Erotic Potential of my Wife: Book Info

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:25:23 +0000

978-1-84659-045-0
Fiction
September 2008
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
145pp
£7.99

The Erotic Potential of my Wife: About the Author

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:22:13 +0000

David Foenkinos was born in 1974 and has published three novels to date. The Erotic Potential is the first to be translated into English. He is also a screenwriter and comic-strip writer.

The Erotic Potential of my Wife

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:10:23 +0000

David Foenkinos

Having collected, among other things, cocktail sticks, electoral campaign badges, paintings of moored ships, rabbits' feet, noises at five in the morning, Croatian maxims, staircase ornaments, the first pages of novels, the labels on melons, birds' eggs, moments with you, hangmen's nooses, Hector falls in love.

It's the way she washes windows that does it for him. And so begins his new infatuation, a collection (and recollection) of beautifully observed moments spent observing his wife's every move.

The 2008 List

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:18 +0000

Our upcoming and published titles for 2008 are listed here in alphabetical order. Click on a title to learn more.

A Dream in Polar Fog
Yuri Rytkheu

A History of the World for Rebels and Somnambulists
Jesús del Campo

The Blue Fox
Sjón

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
Julio Cortazar

The Ice People
Maggie Gee

Metropole
Ferenc Karinthy

The Ministry of Pain
Dubravka Ugresic

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me
Selçuk Altun

What Love
Paul Meyer

The White Family
Maggie Gee