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Luther Blissett
Q
Published May 2003 by Heinemann at £12.99
ISBN: 0434010006
An international cult phenomenon, an ambitious, brilliant,
angry historical novel, written by four young Italian writers,
and a bestseller across Europe.
Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther's nailing of his 95
theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg, tracing the
adventures and conflicts of its two central characters, an Anabaptist,
a member of the most radical of the Protestant sects, the anarchists
of the Reformation, and a Catholic spy and informer, as they travel
across Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
Reminiscent by turns of James Ellroy and Umberto Eco, the four
young writers who shelter behind the pseudonym Luther Blissett
have created a world of intrigue, violence and intense political and
religious passion. Far from the traditional historical novel, Q is the
stuff of which cults are made.
Praise for Q:
'As brilliant as it is masterly, this adventure story marries the
populist verve of the spy novel with political reflections on the
wars of religion... magisterially achieved.' Le Monde
Luther Blissett was, until recently, on the coaching staff at Watford
FC. As a footballer, he is perhaps best known for his brief and
unglorious stint at AC Milan in the early '80s. He had nothing to
do with the writing of this book.
Federico Guglielmi, Fabrizio Belletati, Luca di Meo and Giovanni
Cattabriga, the real authors of Q, live in Bologna.
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Hilary Bonner
When the Dead Cry Out
Published May 2003 by Heinemann at £18.99
ISBN: 043401110X
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Carol Anne Davis
Author of Children Who Kill
A stunning new mystery based on an incredible real life case...
One stormy February afternoon Clara Marshall collected her
daughters, six-year-old Loraine and five-year-old Janine, from
school. They were never seen again. Richard Marshall, Clara's
heartbroken husband, had discovered his wife was having an
affair with an Australian backpacker and believed her to have run
away with him, taking the children with her, destroying the family
for ever.
That was twenty-seven years ago. John Kelly veteran journalist,
covered the case when he was a trainee reporter and he suspected
something far more sinister. His own enquiries could discover no
trace of an Australian backpacker, or a journey abroad by Clara and
her children. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Meadows has been
familiar with the case since childhood and she is only too aware that
many suspect Marshall of murdering his wife and children. But
where are the bodies? And what is the motive?
Then extraordinary events reawaken the case and Kelly and Karen
become determined to discover what happened to Clara and her
children so long ago, and to seek justice for them...
Hilary Bonner is a former showbusiness editor of the Mail on
Sunday and the Daily Mirror. She now lives in Somerset, and
continues to work as a freelance journalist, covering film,
television and theatre.
Praise for Hilary Bonner:
'Bonner is good on the relationship between police and reporter
and never less than entertaining' Sunday Express
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Alexander Kent
Man of War
Published June 2003 by Heinemann at £16.99
ISBN: 0434010081
The new Bolitho novel from our greatest living
naval writer.
The third Adam Bolrtho story follows directly from
Relentless Pursuit. The setting is the West Indies,
with the post-Napoleonic "revolution" against the ban
on slavery. The navy is stretched to the limit, ships
laid up, appointments for captains and senior officers
hard to obtain. There's a lot of rivalry, as well as the
discomfort of working with ships and sailors who
have only recently been deadly enemies. Adam and
the Unrivalled are in the thick of it.
'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' Sunday Times
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the
Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under
his own name and 26 books featuring Richard Bolitho under the
Pseudonym Alexander Kent.
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Ben Mezrich
Bring Down the House
Pbk published April 2003 by Heinemann at £10.00
ISBN: 043401124X
A gripping real-life thriller, the story of a brilliant team of
MIT students who won millions at Las Vegas. The world of
Ocean's Eleven, but for real.
Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - noting which cards
have so far been dealt so as to enable the player to have a sense
of what remains in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably
dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters
from their premises, banning them and using private detectives to
share information on suspected and known counters. Bringing
Down the House tells the true story of the most successful
gambling scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young card-
counting mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars
from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into
the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex.
As readable and as fascinating as Liar's Poker or Barbaríans At
the Gate, Bringing Down the House is a fascinating insight into a
closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world.
'ln this high-octane tale with rich, sharp dialogue, bordering on
Elmore Leonard turf, the plot races by at a Nascar pace and the
characters on both sides of the table are as real as an inside
straight, making their moves and planning their scores like a
croupier on speed. Take the odds, bet the bank, and stare down
the dealer. Bringing down the House is a can't-miss deal.'
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ben Mezrich is the author of four thrillers. This is his first work of
non-fiction.
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Olen Steinhauer
The Bridge of Sighs
Published May 2003 by Heinemann at £18.99
ISBN: 0434011207
A noirish crime thriller reminiscent of Fatherland, set in an
imaginary Eastern European country in 1948.
The Second World War is over and among the millions of
refugees, young Emil Brod returns to the capital city of his country
to live with his grandparents and take up a job as a homicide
inspector. His homeland has been annexed by the Soviet Union
and they are now part of the Eastern Bloc. Russian soldiers
swagger about, the luxuries of life are in short supply, and
everyone is careful to address their friends as Comrade.
Emil's colleagues appear to loathe him and he is
utterly shut out. The hatred of his workmates even
turns to violence. Frustrated and desperate to work,
Emil begs for a case and, suddenly and surprisingly,
is assigned to the high profile murder of Janos
Crowder, a popular and wealthy songwriter. But this
case is a dangerous one - its complex skeins lead
right up to the Party Chairman himself and Emil has
to decide between the truth and his own safety.
A beautifully written novel, imbued with oppressiveness
and barely suppressed violence, The Bridge of Sighs is
an exceptional debut.
Olen Steinhauer is 31, and a former Fulbright Scholar.
Born in the United States, he now lives in Budapest.
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James Watson
DNA The Secret Life
Published April 2003 by Heinemann at £20.00
ISBN: 0434011169
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of
the international bestseller The Double Helíx tells the story
of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago,
following modern genetics from his own Nobel prize-
winning work in the '50's to Dolly the sheep, designer
babies and GM foods.
Along with Francis Crick, James Watson was the discoverer of
the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Their discovery
paved the way for fifty years of explosive scientific achievement,
of immense significance both in strictly scientific terms and for its
technological and social implications. From the cloning of animals
- and possibly humans - to the implications of genetics for
modern agriculture, from the early days of molecular biology to
the achievements of the human genome project, science-related
newspaper headlines have been dominated for decades by the
implications of Crick and Watson's ground-breaking work.
In this book, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Crick
and Watson's ground-breaking paper in Nature, Professor Watson
tells the story of this research from its beginnings to the present,
introducing the science of modern genetics, along with its history
and its implications, in a magnificently written and illustrated guide
to one of the most triumphant achievements of human science.
Born in the US, James Watson won the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for elucidating the structure and
function of DNA, along with the Englishmen Francis Crick and
Maurice Wilkins. He is the author of a number of books, including
the international bestseller The Double Helix.
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