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Russell Banks
The Darling
Published March 2005 by Bloomsbury at £17.99
ISBN: 0747574006
Anthony Bourdain
Typhoid Mary
Pbk published March 2005 by Bloomsbury at £7.99
ISBN: 0747566879
In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. She is Mary Mallon, the woman who would become known as Typhoid Mary. Soper, sanitary engineer turned sleuth, sees Mary as his Moriarty. He finds there has been an outbreak of typhoid fever in every household she has worked in over the past decade. Mary is a 'carrier', a seemingly healthy individual who passes on her dangerous germs, sometimes with fatal consequences. Now Soper must hunt the cook down before she can infect more unsuspecting victims. A poor Irish immigrant, Mary refuses to believe that she can harbour typhoid in her strong and healthy body, and she doesn't intend to go quietly. In this fascinating true story Bourdain, in an homage from one cook to another, follows Mary through the kitchens of New York, putting a human face to a desperate and unintentional murderer, and examines a time, and a life, with his inimitable style.
The story of a notorious cook and a riveting slice of 1900s New York from the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City. He is also the author of the novels The Bobby Gold Stories, Gone Bamboo and Bone in the Throat, plus the bestselling books Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour. His latest book is Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, published by Bloomsbury in October 2004.
Lesley Glaister
As Far as You Can Go
Pbk published March 2005 by Bloomsbury at £7.99
ISBN: 0747574685
"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.
Colin Harrison
The Havana Room
Pbk published March 2005 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0752865382
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.
Patricia Highsmith
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
Pbk published February 2005 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0747554358
David Park
Swallowing the Sun
Pbk published March 2005 by Bloomsbury at £7.99
ISBN: 0747574170
In the museum Martin stands watch over the past. He has travelled a long way from his brutal childhood in the Loyalist heartlands of Belfast and built a life he never imagined he would have - a devoted wife, Alison, two children, Rachel and Tom, a respectable job. But the happiness he has found feels brittle. Rachel's academic success is launching her out of her proud father's orbit. Tom, eclipsed by his sister, has withdrawn into a fantasy world. Martin's gratitude to Alison is a gulf between them. He feels unworthy of his wife, his life, his luck. Returning home one night to find police cars waiting, Martin feels his sins must have finally caught up with him. But their news is wholly unexpected, a senseless tragedy. And in the face of this devastating trauma, which tears his fragile family apart, Martin finds the violence of the past is not gone but merely dormant; its call must be answered at last.
