New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Faber
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Faber
APRIL-JUNE 07
James Bradley
The Resurrectionist
Pbk published May 2007 by Faber at £11.99
ISBN: 0571232752
It is London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But, instead, he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than it might seem.
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Jason Goodwin
The Janissary Tree
Pbk published June 2007 by Faber at £6.99
ISBN: 0571229247
Yashlm is no ordinary detective- It's
not that he's particutarly br-ave Or that
he cooks so wetl, or reads French
novels. Not even that his best friend is
the Ambassador from Poland, whose
country has vanished from the map.
Yashlm is a eunuch.
As the Suttan plans a series of radical
reforms to his empire, a concubine is
strangled in the palace harem. And a
young cadet is found butehered in the
streets of Istanbul
Delving deep into the city's crooked
alleyways, and deeper still into its
tumultuous past, Yashim discovers
that some people wilt go to any Lengths
to preserve the traditions of the
Ottoman E!mplre_ Brllliant[y evoking
Istanbul in the 1830s, The Janissary
Tree is a fast-paced literary thriller wiih
a spectacular cast, from mystic orders
and Llssom archivists lo soup-makers
and a seductive ambassador's wife.
Darker than any of these is the
mysterious figure who controts the
Sultan's harem.
Jason Goodwin studied Byzantine
history at Cambridge University
and is the author of Lords of the
Horizons: A History of the Ottoman
Empire, described by the Daily Telegraph
as 'brilliant and beautifully written.'
A winner of the Mail on Sunday/ John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize, he lives in Sussex,
is married with four children, speaks
French and German and once
walked to Istanbul from Poland.
This is the first of a series of novels
featuring Yashim.
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Andrew Martin
The Lost Luggage Porter
Pbk published June 2007 by Faber at £7.99
ISBN: 0571219047
Winter, 1906. After his adventures as an amateur sleuth, Jim Stringer is now
an official railway detective, working from York Station for the mighty North
Eastern Railway Company. But he's not a happy man.
As the rain falls incessantly on the
city's ancient, neglected streets, the
local paper carries a story highly
unusual by York standards: two broth-
ers have been shot to death.
Meanwhile, on the station platforms,
Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage
Porter, humblest among the employees
of the North Eastern Railway company.
He tells Jim a tale which leads him to
the roughest part of town, a place where
the police constables always walk in
twos. Jim is off on the trail of pick-
pockets, 'station loungers' and other
small fry of the York underworld. But
then in a tiny, one-room pub with a
badly smoking fire he enters the orbit
of a dangerous, disturbed villain who
is playing for much higher stakes.
Andrew Martin grew up in
Yorkshire. After qualifying as a
barrister he became a freelance
journalist, in which capacity he
has tended to write about the
north, class, trains, seaside
towns and eccentric individuals
rather than the doings of the
famous, although he did once
loop the loop in a biplane with
Gary Numan. He has also
learned to drive steam
locomotives, albeit under very
dose supervision. In addition
to the Jim Stringer Steam
Detective series, his books
include Bilton and The Bobby
Dazzlers, which Tim Lott
hailed as 'truly unusual
- a comic novel that actually
makes you laugh:
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Andrew Martin
Murder at Deviation Junction
Pbk published June 2007 by Faber at £10.99
ISBN: 0571229654
A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line, a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer. Jim's new investigation takes him to the mighty blast furnaces of Ironopolis, to Fleet Street in the company of a cynical reporter from "The Railway Rover", and to a nightmarish spot in the Highlands. Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Jim finds himself fighting not just for his job, but for his very life as well.
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Eoin McNamee
12:23: Paris. 31st August 1997
Pbk published June 2007 by Faber at £12.99
ISBN: 0571223419
David Peace, author of The Damned Utd
Utterly compelling, McNamee's dramatising of the conspiracies and
the obsessions around the tragic events of that night is brilliant and, as
ever, poetic.
It's August 1997. As the century grinds to a close, Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the Princess. Former Special Branch man John Harper is recruited as part of the team. Ritz Hotel Deputy Director of Security Henri Paul and paparazzo supreme James Andanson are their surveillance targets. But they are not the only ones watching Spencer, and soon much more sinister forces are on the move...
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David Peace
The Damned Utd
Pbk published April 2007 by Faber at £7.99
ISBN: 0571224334
It is Boxing Day, 1962. A frozen pitch at Roker Park and the painful premature end to a career as one of football's most deadly marksmen. At twenty-eight, he made 251 league goals in 274 appearances. For Sunderland and Middlesbrough. How is a man to make a living? How is a man to live? It is Yorkshire, 1974. Leeds United hate Brian Clough. Brian Clough hates Leeds United. Leeds United, the League Champions. Leeds United, the country's most reviled club. Dirty Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. But Brian Clough has just been appointed the manager of Leeds United. Now Cloughie is on his way to work ...David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel shifts between and across the twelve years and forty-four days in the life of a football genius to tell the story of a world characterized by a fear of failure and a hunger for success. A portrait of one of the most idiosyncratic and wilfully perverse Englishmen of the past century, and a story of the power and the paranoia that come together to shape people and their times, "The Damned Utd" is the compelling new novel by one of our most praised young writers.
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