Joel & Ethan Coen
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pbk published September 2000 by Faber at £6.99
ISBN: 0571205186
This is the new one from the Coen brothers, who've delighted us previously with
Barton Fink, Fargo and The Big Lebowski, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is set
in the American Deep South of the 1930s, and concerns the exploits of three fugitives
who escape from a chain-gang and go on the lam. In the course of trying to elude the
law and the Ku Klux Klan, they somehow manage to cut a hit record. The film is
derived from Homer's Odyssey, and pays homage to the great Preston Sturges, but
remains unmistakably Coenesque.
Kinky Friedman
The Mile High Club
Pbk published September 2000 by Faber at £5.99
ISBN: 0571203795
'if there's one thing I hate: I said to the beautiful woman on the airplane, 'it's
meeting a beautiful woman on an airplane.'
However, when the beautiful woman in question suddenly disappears into thin air and
Kinky is left holding her hot-pink imitation-leather suitcase, it seems as if he is
destined to meet the alluring Khadija Kejela again. Their fateful encounter leads to a
trail of Arab terrorists, State Department officials and Israeli spys fighting their way
through Kinky's Vandam Street loft in order to retrieve a cache of missing passports
from the little pink suitcase, One corpse, a lot of cat shit, a pickled finger, several
shots of Jamesons and countless cigars later the mystery is solved - but not before
Kinky discovers a nasty thing or two about his comely travelling companion ...
Kinky Friedman
Even More Kinky Friedman
Pbk published August 2000 by Faber at £9.99
ISBN: 0571204384
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Reg Gadney
Stealing Greece
Pbk published July 2000 by Faber at £9.99
ISBN: 0571202926
A Greek billionaire is in the final stages of planning the greatest and most audacious robbery of modern times - the theft of the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum to be returned to the Parthenon in Athens
No difficulty or expense can stand in his way. Alan Rosslyn, special
investigator for the intelligence and security advisors Campbell and Menzies Tumin, is mixing business and pleasure in Mani, where he has fallen in love with his client, Cleo Ipsilantis. On the eve of his reluctant departure to London she is the victim of a murderous attack. Rosslyn finds himself chief suspect and is spirited out to Greece by the British Special Intelligence Service. He discovers
that a powerful clique within SIS is actively encouraging the attempt on the marbles and is even turning a blind eye to it. Why! And what is the reason for bringing Rosslyn into the conspiracy and killing his lover?
In Stealing Greece Reg Gadney has written a thriller that takes us into the heart of Greece, the historical controversy that surround the possession of the Elgin Marbles and the endlessly corrupt world of the Intelligence Services.
Elliot Perlman
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
Pbk published July 2000 by Faber at £9.99
ISBN: 0571196993
Funny and brilliantly astute, Elliot Perlman's stories dissect the modern world of downsizing, anxiety and sexual confusion.
The Reasons I Won't be Coming explores the complex lives of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students and murderers. An office worker discovers his lover's betrayal via e-mail. A woman hires a private detective and trawls through the underworld for her brother. A man finds himself waking up, once again, beside the wrong person...
Elliot Perlman is the author of Three Dollars, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award, and shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
'Perlman moves deftly from the personal to the political, from intellectual debate to near farce to edgy tenderness ... A sad, angry, disconcertingly funny reflection of the way we live now.' Times literary Supplement
