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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Cape JAN-MARCH 2003
Dan Collins How It Ends Pbk published March 2003 by Cape at £10.00 ISBN: 0224069276


Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis, at twenty-eight, has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry and pull the plug on Anaconda and his life with Lee. Over the course of a restless summer, Lee moves between London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Rome and Berlin in a way that mirrors her childhood spent traversing the Continental Divide, itinerant the length of the Rockies. Lost in the Badlands of fame and glamour, radically detached from any obvious moral lodestar, Lee rediscovers a hapless instinct for misadventure. Unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre, grip of the past, she resorts to the usual analgesics of sex and drugs, and finds herself betrayed and abandoned by those she has known the longest and loved the best. As Lee probes the true nature of her complex, sinister relationship with Billy she finds herself wishing there were some men in the world that are not the men she always meets. With emotional acuity and dark, ferocious humour How It Ends chronicles a life spiralling out of control.
An original and brave novel from one of Ireland's most inventive writers.

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Chris Paling Repentant Morning Published February 2003 by Cape at £15.99 ISBN: 0224063316

Chris Paling's remarkable new novel is set in Civil War Spain and in the pubs of Fitzrovia and Soho in the summer and autumn of 1936.
In London a group of young people live out an aimless existence, their only excitements drink, sex and sporadic violence. Two of them, Meredith Kerr - an 'actress' who never actually acts - and Billy Royle, are acolytes of Harry Bowden, the wealthy Mosleyite owner of a car showroom. On the fringes of their circle is Arthur Lawler, broke, without a job, only intermittently sober, whose sole purpose in life is to get close to Meredith. But, on the night the book opens, Meredith has met Lawler's friend Kit Renton, and she has fallen in love. Renton is on his way to Spain, where he joins one of the Republican militias and plunges straight into the terrible fighting on the Aragon front. He is eventually captured and imprisoned by Franco's forces. Meanwhile Meredith, finding a purpose at last, sets off to Spain to find him... Chris Paling's first novel, After the Raid, was an astonishing imaginative reconstruction of London in the Blitz.
The Repentant Morning is even more impressive, perfectly capturing - and contrasting - the sordid ennui of the Londoners' world with that of the fighters in Spain. This is another very fine novel by one of Britain's most interesting writers.

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