New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Faber 06 Oct-Dec

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Faber OCT-DEC 06

Gilbert Adair The Act of Roger Murgatroyd Published November 2006 by Faber at Ł10.99 ISBN: 057122637X

It is Boxing Day circa 1935. The place is a snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. It is a Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon. Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written.

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P Auster Travels in the Scriptorium Published October 2006 by Faber at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0571232558

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?
After the huge success of "The Brooklyn Follies", "Travels in the Scriptorium" sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.

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Francisco Cassavella Vicious Games Pbk published November 2006 by Faber at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0571219403

Acclaimed on publication in Spain as the great contemporary novel of Barcelona, in Vicious Games Fernando Atienza narrates the events of 'el dia del Watusi' (Day of the Watusi) - a summer's day in 1971 when the course of his life was changed. On that day, the 13-year-old Fernando, together with his crippled gypsy friend Pepito, both inhabitants of a shanty town on the city's outskirts, scour Barcelona, from port to mountain, in search of a notorious criminal known locally as el Watusi. They intend to warn him that a gang of lowlifes are pursuing him in connection with the rape and murder of a girl. But Watusi proves an elusive figure, and the boys' quest becomes a series of encounters with increasingly unsavoury characters: drifters, thugs, extortionists, pimps and hustlers. Written in the best tradition of the Spanish picaresque and noir, Vicious Games conjures a vision of a spectral city defined by political and moral corruption.

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P.D. James Children of Men Pbk published November 2006 by Faber at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0571233775

Now A Major Motion Picture
It is the near future: no children have been born for twenty-five years and the youngest person on Earth has just died. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the old are despairing and the young cruel.
Theo Faren lives a peaceful life, until a chance encounter with a young woman, the last pregnant female on Earth, leads him on a desperate journey. Suddenly he faces great danger and agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

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D.B.C Pierre Ludmila's Broken English Pbk published November 2006 by Faber at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0571230954

DBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website.
Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self-empowerment and sex. A wild and raucous picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmila's "Broken English" is a tale of tango-ing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so outrageously improbable it just may happen, DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most original storytellers.

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Geling Yan The Uninvited The Banquet Thief Pbk published November 2006 by Faber at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0571220525

This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his discovery that simply by posing as a journalist he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge at state-sponsored banquets.
But the secrets Dan overhears at these events eventually lead him down a twisted, intrigue-laden path, and his true and false identities become increasingly harder to separate. When he becomes privy to a scandal that runs from the depths of society up to its highest rungs, Dan must find a way to lay bare the corruption - without revealing the dangerous truth about himself.

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