New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Canongate Books
2004 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Canongate Books
JAN-MARCH 2004
Niccolo Ammaniti
I'm Not Scared
Pbk published January 2004 by Canongate Books at £6.99
ISBN: 184195442X
Jonathan Hunt (Translator)
The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Whilst exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he has found, Michele has to draw strength from his own sense of humanity...
It is Ammaniti's ability to inhabit the mind and perspective of his young hero that makes I'm Not Scared such an affecting and extraordinary novel. The book is a masterpiece of coming of age; a compelling portrait of losing one's innocence and a powerful reflection on the complexities and compromises inherent in growing up.
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James W Nichol
Midnight Cab
Pbk published February 2004 by Canongate Books at £9.99
ISBN: 1841954489
See Review by
Bob Cornwell
A three-year-old boy is abandoned at the side of a country road. His mother whispers to him to hold on to a wire fence. She never returns, but the boy is eventually found - holding on so tightly the wire is cutting into his hands. Well dressed, but without identification, the only clue to his background is a photograph of two young girls and a chatty letter from a teenager found in his pocket. Sixteen years later, Walker Devereux is in Toronto to discover the truth about his early life. Who are his parents? Why was he abandoned? And if, as he remembers dimly, his mother loved him, what happened to her? In pursuit of answers Walker uncovers his family's dark secrets and comes within the deadly grasp of a man whose own early abandonment helped transform a lonely boy into a murderous psychopath ...
Midnight Cab is a compelling and utterly captivating thriller that heralds the arrival of a formidable new talent.
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