New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Bloomsbury
04 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Bloomsbury
APRIL-JUNE 04
Yvonne Cloetta
In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene
Published April 2004 by Bloomsbury at £16.99
ISBN: 0747571082
Marie-Francoise Allain, Euan Cameron (Translator)
Yvonne Cloetta was Graham Greene's companion for almost 32 years. Graham knew the time might come when Yvonne's privacy would be invaded. His advice was that she could either refuse to speak or to "tell the truth". This Cloetta has done startlingly eloquently - with the help of family friend and biographer Marie Francoise Allain. What emerges is a remarkable portrait of Graham Greene and a moving account of their relationship. Yvonne reveals the considerate, jovial and tender side of the private Graham Greene. She provides a new perspective on the "old firm" and his contact with the former secret service boss Kim Philby. She portrays him as a man prone to swift justice against any violation of human dignity: who would quit the American Academy of Arts and Letters over America's involvement in Vietnam and forbid his novels to be published in the USSR unless Soviet authorities agreed to give his royalties to the widows of fallen comrades. "In Search of a Beginning" is a book to send the reader racing either to reread or to discover the novels of Graham Greene. A writer who truly believed you had to go out and see the world to have anything to write about - which of course made his life more interesting than most. The fact that we can now see his life so intimately constitutes a literary milestone.
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Lesley Glaister
As Far as You Can Go
Published April 2004 by Bloomsbury at £14.99
ISBN: 0747570957
Time Out
'This is one to keep you engrossed on that long plane journey to Australia'
The Scotsman,
'Glaister is an expert plotter and her story has a chilling plausibility.'
Prize Magazine
"Filled with suspense and menace, 'As Far As You Can Go' is a riveting psychological drama."
"Great opportunity for the right applicants: Western Australia. Housekeeper/companions required. Would suit young couple. Remote, rural location. Cooking, cleaning, gardening and caring duties. Applicants must be self-sufficient and resourceful". Cassie is at a turning point. She wants a child and a bigger commitment from Graham, her artist boyfriend. A year away with him, in the wilds of Australia, could be just the answer. The enigmatic Larry Drake and his strange wife Mara live in Woolagong, an immense farm at the edge of the desert. It is a place of bleak, breathtaking landscape, a world far away from civilization and London. But its remoteness can make Woolagong a dangerous prison. And the more Graham and Cassie begin to uncover the dark secrets of their mysterious employers, the more trapped they feel. Filled with suspense and menace, "As Far As You Can Go" is a psychological drama from the acclaimed Lesley Glaister.
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Colin Harrison
The Havana Room
Published April 2004 by Bloomsbury at £12.99
ISBN: 0747571864
Just days before an international medical convention begins, terrorists abduct a leading scientist from the shadowy laboratories that serve as America's first line of defence against bio-chemical annihilation. Locked away in his head are secrets critical to America's security...and possibly knowledge of a new, terrifying, and incurable illness that could wipe out millions. Only one government agency has the know-how, the equipment, and the sheer guts to find out what happened before apocalyptic plague consumes the world's democracies: the National Security Agency. Returning from the first DEEP BLACK, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean pairs with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to pick up where the missing scientist left off, with Dean actually assuming his identity and faking his way through the conference. From there, mysterious contacts direct them through a gauntlet of assassins and booby-trapped villas, to a ruthless international consortium determined to hold the world hostage with the killer virus.
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Malcolm Pryce
Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Pbk published June 2004 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0747566763
Independent
The off-kilter imagination that made Aberystwyth Mon Amour such fun is firing on all cylinders again.
Sunday Times
One of the most inventively comic crime novels of recent years.
Irish Times
An impossible-to-synopsise comedy thriller... Buy it and laugh yourself sick!
Daily Telegraph
I am already looking forward to future volumes in this marvellously surreal Welsh noir series.
Guardian
Combines Monty Python absurdity with tenderness for the twisted world of noir... Priceless.
To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto - a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart - and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, his heart hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice. Last Tango in Aberystwyth is the hilarious sequel to the bestselling Aberystwyth Mon Amour, and again, Louie Knight, the town's only private eye is called upon to make sense of it all. He knows that in order to find the Dean, he has to discover what was in the druid's case. It turns out to be something so evil it makes even the hard-boiled gumshoe gasp...
Malcolm Pryce's first book was the hugely popular Aberystwyth Mon Amour. The author lives in Bangkok.
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Simonetta Wenkert
The Sunlit Stage
Published May 2004 by Bloomsbury at £14.99
ISBN: 0747571244
Alexandra Pringle (Editor)
Italy, 1979, is a country racked by violence. Against this backdrop Julia and Ennio begin an affair shrouded in secrecy, for Ennio is one of the most wanted men in Italy. Twenty years on and the story is taken up by their daughter Lotte, raised in England she journeys to Italy to find her past only to find herself replaying her mother's story.
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Andrew Wilson
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Pbk published May 2004 by Bloomsbury at £8.99
ISBN: 0747568553
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
'Every adult has secrets' says one of the characters in Patricia Highsmith's lesbian novel Carol, first published under a pseudonym in 1952 as The Price of Salt. Indeed, Highsmith - author of Stranger on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley - had more than her fair share. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents - diaries, notebooks and letters - which detail the links between her life and her work. Drawing on these astonishingly intimate papers, together with material gleaned from her closest friends and lovers, Andrew Wilson has written the first biography of an author described by Graham Greene as the 'poet of apprehension' and by Gore Vidal as 'one of our greatest modernist writers'. In this compelling biography Andrew Wilson illuminates the dark corners of Highsmith's life, casts light on mysteries of the creative process and reveals the secrets that the writer chose to keep hidden until after her death.
Highsmith’s output was prolific – she was the author of twenty-two novels and seven volumes of short stories – but it was always the degenerate and the criminal which most fascinated her. Best known for her suspense novels and the series featuring the amoral killer Tom Ripley, Highsmith raised crime fiction to new heights, and in the process created a transgressive genre of her own.
Even as a child, Highsmith felt like an outsider. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she was the product of an unhappy marriage – before she was born her mother tried to abort her and she did not meet her real father until she was twelve. When other girls of her age were reading fairy stories, Highsmith was dreaming of death and deviancy, gripped by the psychological case histories outlined in Dr Karl Menninger’s ‘The Human Mind’. As an adolescent she felt attracted to other girls, but was always plagued by a strange sense of guilt, and as a young woman she would undergo six months of psychoanalysis in New York so as to try to make herself heterosexual.
Andrew Wilson>/B> is a journalist who has written for most of Britain’s national newspapers, including the ‘Daily Telegraph’, the ‘Guardian’, the ‘Independent on Sunday’ and the ‘Daily Mail’. This is his first book
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