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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Flamingo July-Sept 03
J.G. Ballard Millennium People Published September 2003 by Flamingo at £17.99 ISBN: 000225848X


A mysterious figure sparks a rebellion among London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. A bomb at Heathrow appears to psychologist David Markham to be just one more random act of meaningless violence, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Following up police suspicions, Markham goes undercover to investigate the growing number of fringe protest groups in London, and falls in with a shadowy movement based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, it aims to stir up the docile middle classes, to free them from the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and service, pensions and health insurance, private schools and nannies -- and to tear down the consumer society in search of a more meaningful existence. As Markham tries to find the truth behind Laura's death, he is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life comes into question as the cornerstones of middle England become the targets of violent attack, and a growing panic grips the capital.

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Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! Published September 2003 by Flamingo at £16.99 ISBN: 0007162502


GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE

Cheryl Anway is 'no longer a part of the world and still not yet a part of what follows'. She was pregnant, but she isn't any longer. The morning she went into school to tell her boyfriend -- well, secret husband, in fact -- Jason that they were going to have a baby was the last morning she spent alive. It was a beautiful day in Vancouver, and the world had seemed 'unbearably pretty' to Cheryl. She was sitting with her girlfriends in the school cafeteria as the gunfire started, and watched the three malcontents, students who had dressed up like duck-hunters, give death to their schoolmates one lunch-hour. Ten years on, Jason is the kind of guy you sometimes see, sitting in his car, staring out in silence at nothing in particular -- with, sometimes, a dog at hand to indicate his ability to sustain a relationship. Meanwhile Jason's father loves what God loves, hates what God hates; while his mother is lost to drink. And Jason moves between black-outs and all-too-clear memories of the school shootings and their aftermath. As Jason moves in and out of his own life, between body and soul, he allows the inimitable Douglas Coupland to give us in Hey Nostradamus! perhaps his most soulful and searching story yet.

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Andrew Taylor The American Boy Published August 2003 by Flamingo at £17.99 ISBN: 000710961X

See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

Interweaving real and fictional elements, An American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. When Edgar Allan Poe came to live with foster parents in London early in the nineteenth century, Anglo-American relations were tense, his father -- feckless actor David Poe -- had disappeared without trace, and the London tobacco market was on the point of collapse. Sent to boarding school in Stoke Newington, Poe could easily have run into characters like Roderic Fleetwood, an impoverished usher at the school and the central character of An American Boy. Merging fact and fiction, this major literary suspense novel is woven around Poe's school days as seen through Fleetwood's eyes, and explores a relatively unknown period in the writer's life that may well have been the inspiration for his later novel William Wilson. What was the real significance of this episode for Poe and his writing? And what would have happened if David Poe, still alive and very dangerous, had taken an alias and come looking for him?

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