New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Sceptre
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Sceptre
APRIL-JUNE 07
Phil Lamarche
American Youth
Published April 2007 by Sceptre at £12.99
ISBN: 034093803X
In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school - calling themselves 'American Youth', they subscribe to a twisted notion of traditional, puritanical values. As he gets sucked into their orbit, and entangled with the girlfriend of the group's leader, he struggles to hold on to a sense of right and wrong. Set in a New England town riven by social and ideological tensions -- as newcomers encroach on an old rural culture - this is a classic portrait of a boy's rites of passage in an America ill at ease with itself.
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David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
Pbk published April 2007 by Sceptre at £7.99
ISBN: 0340822805
Jason Taylor is 13 and stuck in the deadest village in the dullest county of darkest Cold
War England. But with a stammer, bullies and simmering family discord to contend
with, plus the Falklands War, village hysteria against a gypsy encampment and these
mysterious objects known as girls, 1982 will prove to be anything but boring.
A subtle, painful, elegiac, wry novel about the 'gap year' between childhood and
adolescence, about a faded era, and about knowing what you don't know you know.
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Alexei Sayle
Weeping Women Hotel
Pbk published May 2007 by Sceptre at £7.99
ISBN: 0340831227
The latest novel from highly acclaimed writer Alexei Sayle - bleak, hilarious and completely unique Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy and overweight, she hires a personal trainer who lures her into joining the martial arts class he runs. There she learns the regime of the completely phoney martial arts 'master' and embarks on a spiritual and literal journey which leads her to a hotel opposite the railway station at Crewe, the 'Weeping Women Hotel'. This is Alexei Sayle's best work to date - good plot, great characters plus his trademark anarchic black humour.
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