New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Picador 06 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Picador APRIL-JUNE 06

Tim Binding Man Overboard Pbk published April 2006 by Picador at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0330487485

Lionel 'Buster' Crabb became renowned during the Second World War for his amazing feats of underwater daring. After the war, he was celebrated for embodying a particular English ideal - a love for King and Country - that seemed to be dying out. Then, in 1956, during a visit to Britain by Nikita Khrushchev, who had arrived by ship, Commander Crabb disappeared. Some thought he had perished while attempting to inspect the Soviet vessel; others that he had been kidnapped and forced to work for the USSR. Out of this mystery, Tim Binding has spun a wondrous piece of fiction. It is the story of a man who has made deep personal sacrifices for the sake of higher ideals and who must, towards the end of his days, measure their meaning and their worth.

Praise for "Man Overboard":
'Such an arresting subject for a novel that one wonders why no one ever thought of it before... Binding fashions a convincing picture of a restless postwar world... a consistently entertaining and resourceful novel' - D. J. Taylor, "Guardian".
'His triumph is to have created a marvellous, anachronistic hero in a novel, which not only tries to explain a famous mystery, but takes a hard look at what Britain lost when the war was won' - "Daily Mail".
'The dialogue is always a comic delight... "Man Overboard" is one half James Bond story (except more soulful), and one half-Ealing Comedy. As such, it is pretty irresistible' - "Daily Express".
'Tim Binding has written a historical novel, which with a very light touch, dramatizes the faint but inescapable foreignness of the past without turning it into a costume drama; its poignancy is the product of conviction. Binding wields a range of linguistic fire-power often missing from contemporary fiction, as much at ease with the visionary set piece as with bar-room banter... [Man Overboard] is a remarkable feat of compression, representing a significant artistic advance' - Sean O'Brien, "TLS".

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Arabella Edge Raft Published April 2006 by Picador at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0330418475

Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon for his painting "Charging Chasseur" - completed at the tender age of twenty-one - Gericault finds himself, seven years later, distracted and lovesick due to his secret affair with his benefactor-uncle's young wife, Alexandrine, still desperately searching for the subject of his next tableau. Then, at the house of his neighbour, he hears about the French frigate Medusa, shipwrecked off the shores of the West African coast. With tales of betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism, this was a catastrophe that horrified the French public - and Gericault is duly fascinated. When he manages to track down two of the raft's survivors and invites them to his home to discover what really happened during those fifteen days at sea, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject.

Praise for The Company:
'Pitched somewhere between "Robinson Crusoe" and "Lord of the Flies", this is a thoroughly diabolical tale in the best sense'. - "Daily Mail".
'We're led into the mind of a marooned madman via a lapidary, first-person prose style that speaks vividly to the senses'. Nimbly balanced on a tightrope of acute intelligence and ruthless psychopathy'. "Time Out".
'Edge is almost as good as Patrick O'Brian in her re-creation of life on a sailing ship... A second novel please. And soon'. - "The Times".

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Mark Lawson Enough Is Enough Pbk published June 2006 by Picador at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0330441345

A thrilling satire from one of our sharpest storytellers,

A dynamic young Labour prime minister has been elected to end years of Tory rule. But now the public thinks he's a slippery liar and the newspapers want him out. Convinced the Chancellor of the Exchequer is plotting his removal, he can no longer trust what intelligence services are telling him. And the American president's involvement in an unpopular war threatens both their governments.
Enough is Enough revolves around events in May 1968. Harold Wilson knows his party has fallen out of love with him. Still, he has failed to spot at least two conspiracies brewing. Bernard Storey, a journalist, stumbles on the rival plots and enters a world of lying and spying, back stabbing and blackmail. Based on actual events, Enough is Enough is a satirical and unnerving spy thriller which shows how stupid Intelligence can be and how, in politics; what we see is rarely what we're getting.

Mark Lawson has published three previous novels including Idlewild and Going Out Live. He is a cultural columnist and television critic and an award-winning broadcaster

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