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A brief overview of the book“It’s a ghost story and it is set in London. It’s got to do with Highgate cemetery. There are a pair of mirror image twins who have been raised in America in a posh suburb outside of Chicago. And they have an aunt that they’ve never met who suddenly dies and leaves them her fl at.

It’s a very beautiful spacious fl at that is right next to Highgate cemetery, they have a wall that they share, and so the twins very happily come to London to live in their new fl at. And unbeknownst to them their aunt is stuck in the fl at – she’s a ghost and so she is happy to see them, but she can’t really communicate with them.

The twins get entangled with their neighbours and cause a certain

amount of havoc; ultimately the ghost is able to make herself known and at that point everything kind of slides into chaos.” Cemetery“When I fi rst got in touch with the people who run Highgate, I ended up talking to a woman named Jean Pateman, who is the chairman of the friends of Highgate cemetery. I phoned up and I said “Hi, I’m a novelist and I live in Chicago. I want to write a novel that’s about your cemetery”. And she said, “Oh my dear, I don’t think that would be a very good idea” but she let me come and see her anyway, and eventually she came around to the idea. Then she enlisted me to become a guide at Highgate cemetery, which has been thrilling. So it turned out to be great.”

Loss“Someone who came to a presentation I was giving at the Q&A put her hand up and she said “Why is all of your work about loss?”. And I said “Is it?”.

I went home and thought about it and realised that in fact everything I do is about time passing, people dying. There are also a lot of people being born in my work, but a lot of it has to do with the idea that everything is transitory, and we should make the most of what we’ve got.”

A major motion pictureThe fi lm adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, was recently released worldwide. The Dutch release is scheduled for 12 November 2009.

Audrey Niff enegger Her Fearful SymmetryJonathan Cape / pbk / € 17,95 The Time Traveler’s Wife Vintage / pbk / € 10,95

The Winter Ghosts is as much a story about male grief and loss, as a tradi-tional ghost story. Author Kate Mosse believes that those we have loved leave an echo of themselves when they pass on, that we feel their presence, even if they are no longer with us.

“This was the emotional inspiration, if you like, for The Winter Ghosts. It’s about those silent, eerie places, the shift of light on the turn of the stairs, the shadow on a bright day. It’s about listening to the silence.

Set in 1928, ten years after the Armistice, Freddie is travelling alone through southern France. Having suff ered the loss of his beloved brother on the Western Front, he feels guilt at having survived and for having been too young to fi ght. He’s also still crippled by grief and unable to fi nd a reason for carrying on. In a snow storm, he seeks shelter in a village in the mountains and fi nds himself drawn into a much older tragedy.

The action is set in and around the ancient mountain villages of the Pyrenees in the Ariège - Tarascon, Ax-les-Bains and the mysterious, haunting caves of Lombrives. The historical inspira-

tion comes from the dying days of Catharism and builds upon a real-life tragedy in the Pyrenees in 1328, where the last remaining Cathar communities were en-tombed inside the caves in which they had taken refuge. Their bod-ies not discovered for 250 years.

The grief of those left behind, not knowing what had hap-pened to their loved ones, seemed to mirror the emotions of the millions of families during WWI whose brothers, sons, hus-bands, friends went missing in action. Little by little, weaving history and landscape and nar-rative together, Freddie’s story started to take shape.

In the end, for all its elements of adventure and the supernatu-ral, The Winter Ghosts is a story of redemption. The story of one man learning to live again and seeing hope in the future. It was a fabulous novel to write, though emotionally draining. It will be a

relief to get back to working on the fi nal book in my Languedoc Trilogy, Citadel, which comes out Autumn 2010. At least, there are no ghosts!”

Kate MosseThe Winter GhostsOrion / hardback / € 17,95LabyrinthOrion / pbk / € 10,95SepulchreOrion / pbk / € 9,95

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The brilliant, original and moving new novel from the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife is fi nally here!

Grief and ghosts in 20th Century France

Audrey Niffenegger talks about Her Fearful Symmetry - another classic book certain to cement her stand-ing as one of the most singular and remarkable novelists of our time. Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compel-ling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.

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American psychologist Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world’s most popular thriller authors. He has written over thirty novels, including stand-alone thrillers, children’s books and the bestselling Alex Dela-ware books, the very successful L.A. based crime series featuring child psychologist Alex Delaware.

Last month Headline published Evidence, Jonathan Kellerman’s 24th Alex Delaware novel. The author talks

to Book News about this latest creation, his hero Alex and his inspiration.

Evidence is Kellerman’s 24th thriller featuring psychologist Alex Delaware which makes him one of the longest running characters in crime fi ction.

Jonathan Kellerman: “Hard to believe he’s been getting into trouble for so long! Fortunately, unlike his creator, he doesn’t age in real-time. Alex arose out of my desire to - duh – Write What I Know. Since I was working as a clinical psychologist and psychology seemed a natural interface with crime detection. Since I detest books where amateurs show up the cops, I created Milo Sturgis as the professional anchor. “Kellerman writes the series so that the books can be read in

any order. Some people prefer to start at the beginning, but it’s really not necessary. The author says not to have favorites but is always partial to the most recent. So he advises to start with Evidence.

Even after writing over 30 inter-national bestsellers in the past 25 years, Kellerman isn’t suff ering from writer’s block. The love for the job keeps him inspired and motivated in his daily writing: “I love my job – almost everything about it. That includes the nice feedback I receive from readers, new and longstanding. Writing’s a great gig but it is rather isolat-ing, so it’s always a pleasure hear-ing what people like about your books. That said, my primary goal is to write the type of book I’d like to read. In terms of writer’s block, though I am sympathetic, I fi nd myself chuckling, recalling Robert B. Parker’s comment on the subject: something along the lines of ‘When you call someone to fi x your sink, he doesn’t say ‘Can’t come, I’ve got plumber’s block.”

It took Kellerman quite a while and some rejections to get his fi rst book, When the Bough Breaks, published in 1985. Asked for any tips for the aspiring crime author he answers: “My days as a psychologist taught me that free advice is worth what you pay. Writing’s such a personal thing and my feeling is that true writers are born to write, driven to continue even in the face of frustration. So if someone needs prodding, mentoring, etc, they should probably take up another line of work. Maybe plumbing.”

Inspired by (crime) authors Arthur Conan Doyle and Ross McDonald, Kellerman doesn’t want to compose lists of favorite

new authors as someone is bound to be left off . “Mostly, I read non-fi ction, as fi ction can be distracting while I’m working on a novel. Which is just about always.”

Psychologist Jonathan Kellerman has a few words of wisdom on why people love to read about crimes and evil: “The good ones represent the best of fi ction: strong characterization, robust story, something important to say about good and evil. I was reading an article a few months back, about some pretentious jerk who has a snooty radio show about books. (Who’d never actually written one.) He doesn’t like crime novels because they answer questions rather than leave them open-ended. Now, none of us appreciate pat endings but why not attempt to actually solve some problems rather than leave the reader with chaos, uncertainty, corruption, and disorganization? If I was out for all of that, I’d be a politician, not a novelist.”

Praise for Jonathan Kellerman’s work:

‘Kellerman has created a sympathetic and engaging character.’ – the Times

‘When it comes to psychological or even psychopathic themes JK leads the pack - partly because he is a clinical psychologist and partly because he is a damn good writer.’ – Guardian

‘Often mystery writers can either plot like devils or create believable characters. Kellerman stands out because he can do both. Masterfully’ – USA Today

‘When they’re this good, it’s impossible to get enough.’– Mirror

Early one morning a foreman shows up at the building site of a mega-mansion in one of L.A.’s most luxurious neighborhoods. Proceeding up unfi nished plank steps, he arrives at the master bedroom. There, lying on a blanket, are a man and a woman in a lover’s embrace, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Who are the lovers? Why have they chosen a construction

site for their late-night tryst. Is the double murder simply a horrifi c example of wrong-place, wrong-time? Or were the victims stalked? And will the outrage be repeated?

Alex and his friend, LAPD detective, Milo Sturgis are called in and as they struggle to make their way through the alternative universe that is the

domain of the impossibly rich, they discover a scheme rooted in deception and evil beyond even their imaginations.

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David Baldacci is the acclaimed author of fi fteen previous consecutive New York Times bestsellers. With his books published in over 40 languages in more than 80 countries, and with nearly 70 million copies in print, he is one of the world’s favourite storytellers.

True Blue is the start of an exciting new series for Baldacci, featuring an unjustly interned detective and her police chief sister. Mr Baldacci tells Book News about his latest creation:

Your latest novel True Blue introduces two new main characters, Mason Perry and Roy Kingman. Could you tell us more about them? And will there be more novels with this duo?“Mace was an undercover cop who was framed and went to prison. Her sister Beth is the

D.C. Chief of Police. Mace is a real fi rebrand maverick, used to going her own way. All she wants to be is a cop and now, as a convicted felon, she can’t be. She is tough as nails and has a personality that will never give up. She comes back to D.C. hoping to prove her innocence and become a cop once more.

Roy Kingman is a young lawyer and former basketball player. He’s spent his early career defending people who couldn’t aff ord an attorney. Now he gets paid big bucks to represent very wealthy clients. He fi nds his law partner murdered and that’s how he and Mace meet. There will defi nitely be more novels with these characters, especially Mace and Beth.”

Your worldwide popularity is partly due to your very fast-paced, complex plots. How do you achieve those?“Sweat equity. There is no formula. You just have to imagine each and every scenario and then write it as vividly as possible and make sure that in the end it all makes sense and keeping ahead of millions of readers hoping to fi gure it all out before you want

them to. No pressure, right? But I’m a very curious person who craves knowledge and information on many subjects. That is very helpful when you’re putting together complex plots covering myriad subjects.”

You write two new bestselling thrillers each year. How do you keep inspired?“I love to tell stories. Doing two a year is tough. I will never go the route where I hire other writers to write my books and then slap my name on them. That’s a cheat to the writer and the reader. After so many novels I still get tremendously excited with another blank piece of paper. This is obviously what I was meant to do with my life.”

David Baldacci True Blue Macmillan / pbk Celebration price € 15,00First Family Pan / pbk / € 9,95

Peter James combines a talent for fi endishly clever crime plotting with a deep interest in the world of police, science, medicine and the paranormal.

In Dead Tomorrow, the fi fth novel featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Brighton Police Force discovers three bodies off the

coast of Sussex, all missing vital organs. As Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child trafi ickers from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will fi nd themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a mother will stop at nothing to save her terminally ill daughter’s life . .

Peter James Dead Tomorrow Pan / pbk / € 10,95

One hot date. One brutal abduction. One hell of a morning after...

The idea for his new novel, Target, came suddenly to Simon Kernick, and quite unexpectedly: “I woke up one night, alone and in an unfamiliar hotel room, and for some reason the fi rst thought that shot into my head was what would I do if I witnessed the kidnapping of someone who I’d only just met, while I was in their house, but out of sight of the kidnappers?

Would I intervene? Would I wait for an opportune moment and

call the police? Or would I pre-tend that it hadn’t happened -forget about it even - particular-ly if no one believed my story?

I like to think I’d intervene. But then again, maybe I wouldn’t. Either way, I couldn’t stop thinking about this scenario, and the implications involved. And as I turned it over in my mind, a story began to develop. I was working on another book at the time, but because this one seemed so full of potential, I began to work on it instead. And here it is: the story of an ordinary guy on a normal night out, who fi nds himself thrust into the centre of a dangerous criminal conspiracy, and who ends up risking his reputation,and then his life, to fi nd a girl he hardly knows.”

Simon Kernick TargetCorgi UK / pbk / € 9,95

Previously published:Deadline, Severed, RelentlessCorgi UK / pbks / € 9,95

Keeping ahead of millions of readersDavid Baldacci talks about his new novel True Blue

The fi fth bestseller in the Detective Roy Grace series

A gripping race-against-time thriller by Britain’sbrightest crimewriting star Simon Kernick

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Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this 1.000 pages long tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical -and a supernatural element as baffl ing and chilling as any he’s ever conjured.

On an entirely normal day in Chester’s Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and sud-denly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force fi eld. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in fl am-ing wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the Dome” comes down on it and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.

Stephen King Under the Dome Hodder & Stoughton / hbk / € 24,95

John Grisham returns to Ford County, Missis-sippi, the setting of his immensely popular fi rst novel, A Time to Kill.

Featuring a cast of char-acters you’ll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, fre-quently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is Ameri-ca’s favorite storyteller.

John Grisham Ford County Doubleday US / hbk / € 21,95

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Exciting new crime seriesI’m a Coroner. I spend my life laying things to rest...

The Coroner is the fi rst book by screenwriter and former criminal barrister M.R. Hall

This gripping debut introduces new coroner Jenny Cooper who takes over an offi ce full of neglected fi les hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Jenny’s one-wom-an’s crusade for justice will not only threaten her career but also her sanity.In the second book, The Disappeared (January 2010), Jenny is beginning to settle into her role as Coroner when a case of two missing boys pushes her to breaking point.

M.R. Hall The Coroner Pan / pbk / € 10,95The Disappeared Pan / pbk / € 16,95

A huge new talent on the contempo-rary crime sceneLondon. A city where no-one feels safe and one man’s crime is another man’s jus-tice. A paedophile is brutally murdered in his own home, and to protect other known off enders the police must haul the families of their victims down to the station for questioning.

As D. I. Will Wagstaff e digs for answers into the grime of the city the main ques-tion remains: just how far would you go to protect your children?

Watch out for more Adam Creed in 2010!

Adam Creed Suff er the ChildrenFaber & Faber / pbk / € 10,95

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One of America’s greatest novelists dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fi fteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker fi nds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three diff erent narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean.

Although Auster himself was a twenty-year-old student at

Colombia in 1967, the novel is not autobiographical as such but mirrors the things that happened to him and the naivety and the intensity with which he set out discovering the world and discovering his own identity.

Invisible is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes his reader into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confi rms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.”

Praise for Man in the Dark: ‘Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.’– The New York Review of Books

‘Provoking and entertaining in brilliant fashion. [Auster] draws you into a literary maze and sets you marveling at how he will get you out.’ – Seattle Times

Paul Auster InvisibleHenry Holt / hbk/ € 16,95Man in the DarkPicador US / pbk / € 8,95

Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she’s ever want-ed. Born into a family of wealth, she grew up in a mansion with its own private beach, a ward-robe full of designer clothes, a large four poster bed complete with a luxurious bathroom en-suite. She’s always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow.

But then suddenly her dad is gone and life for Tamara and her mother changes forever. Left with a mountain of debt, they have no choice but to sell everything they own and move to the country to live with Ta-mara’s Uncle and Aunt. Nestled next to Kilsaney Castle, their gate house is a world away from her childhood and Tama-ra, lonely and bored, longs to return to Dublin.

When a travelling library passes through Kilsaney Demesne, Ta-mara is intrigued. She needs a distraction. Her eyes rest on a mysterious large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock.

Tamara fi nally manages to open the book. What she dis-covers within the pages takes

her breath away and shakes her world to its core.

Written in Cecelia’s unique style, blending a good story and down-to-earth heroines with plenty of laughs, tears and a little magic, The Book of Tomorrow is a mesmerizing tale of seeing the future laid out before you.

Cecelia Ahern The Book of TomorrowHarperCollins / pbk Celebration price € 15,00The GiftHarperCollins / pbk / € 9,95

Before embarking on her writing career, Cecelia Ahern completed a degree in journalism and media studies. Her fi rst novel, PS, I Love You was one of the biggest-sell-ing debut novels of 2004 and a number one bestseller. Her other bestselling novels include Thanks for the Memories and The Gift, now available in paperback.

“ I feel an echo of the lightning each time I

fi nd a fossil, a little jolt that says, “Yes, Mary

Anning, you are diff er-ent from all the rocks on the beach.” That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of light-ning, and that diff er-

ence, every day.”

Remarkable Creatures is Tracy Chevalier’s stun-ning new novel of how one woman’s gift tran-scends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discov-eries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resil-ient nature of female friendship.

Tracy Chevalier, well known for her clever use of historical fi gures, fi rst heard of Mary Anning, who the Natural His-tory Museum claim to be “the most important fossil-hunter of all time”, during a trip with her son to a small dinosaur museum in Dorchester. She was enthralled by the idea of a poor, working class girl with an eye for fi nding fossils who started selling her discover-ies to the middle classes as a means to an end but ended up turning it into a thriving business.

Tracy describes Mary Anning as “a prickly, independent, prim and eccentric woman” who survived being struck by lightning as a baby which eligibly turned her from “a le-thargic baby in to a lively and intelligent one”.Tracy was fascinated by the unlikely friendship Mary

forged with educated, up-per class spinster Elizabeth Philpot, who herself now has a museum named after her, and how Elizabeth’s intelligence and sophistication counterbal-anced Mary’s rawness.

Having undergone some “on the job training”, Tracy de-scribes herself as an ‘amateur fossil-hunter’. During the hours spent scouring the beach of isolated and mysteri-ous Lyme Regis she says she learnt the “skill of patience” and the joy of discovery on fi nding fossils.

In Remarkable Creatures Tracy skilfully weaves together fact and fi ction to tell the story of how Elizabeth and Mary’s shared passion for fossil-hunt-ing and their discoveries man-aged to infl uence the work of Darwin and many other scholars of the time, to defi ne the age of the earth, introduce the concept of extinction and, not least, to pose a threat to the Creationist theory.

‘Chevalier recently stated that making fossils sexy was one of her chief aims in writing Remark-able Creatures. With this very en-tertaining book, she has certainly succeeded’ – Telegraph

Tracy Chevalier Remarkable CreaturesHarperCollins UK / pbk / € 16,95

The Girl with the Pearl EarringHarperCollins UK / pbk / € 9,95

A brilliant new novel by Paul AusterInvisible is a work of unforgettable power

Cecelia Ahern’s The Book of TomorrowEssential comfort reading for this autumn

From the author of the world-wide bestseller The Girl With

the Pearl Earring comes a fascinating history of two

pioneering 19th century women

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Paul Auster Invisible

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Blinded by ambition. Seduced by Power. Destroyed by Rome.The wait is over… Robert Harris is back with a page-turning thriller. Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, Lustrum is an entirely self-contained novel, but it is also a continuation of Cicero’s story as told in Robert Harris’ bestselling Imperium. A third Roman volume will complete the trilogy in 2011. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy.

The stories of these real historical fi gures – their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes – are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confi dential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his

master’s secrets – a dangerous position to be in. From the discovery of a child’s mutilated body, through judicial execution and a scandalous trial, to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob, Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power.

Internationally acclaimed for his storytelling power and historical accuracy, Robert Harris will not disappoint his fans with this new book and will no doubt entice a new readership to discover his talents.

Robert Harris is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost all of which were inter-national bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.

After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph.

Praise for Robert Harris:‘A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock’ – Nelson Mandela

Robert Harris LustrumHutchinson / pbk Celebration price € 15,00ImperiumArrow / pbk / € 9,95

John Irving’s 12th From the taut opening sentence to its elegiac fi nal chapter, this novel is written with historical authenticity and emotional authority.

John Irving Last Night in Twisted RiverKnopf US / hbk / € 19,95

Erick Setiawan’s enchanting debutOf Bees and Mist is an epic tale of two families told by an unforgettable voice. A modern fable, a gothic page-turner, but most of all, a passionate story about the power of love to conquer all that comes its way.

Erick Setiawan Of Bees and MistHeadline / pbk / € 9,95

Robert Harris is back with a new novel Another epic bestseller set in ancient Rome

Roberto Bolaño: The discovery of a Latin American genius

John Irving

Erick Setiawan

The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn’t always bring good news – as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fi fteen her gift sent her whole world crashing to pieces. She predicted – and then witnessed – something so horrifi c that she vowed never to read lace again, and fl ed her home and family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, and she swore she would never return.

Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fi fteen years later, Towner fi nds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared – and when you’ve lived a life like Eva’s, that could mean real trouble. But Salem is wreathed in sickly shadows and whispered half-memories. It’s fast becoming clear that the ghosts of Towner’s fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. And with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster. It’s fast becoming clear that the ghosts

of Towner’s fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. And with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster.

Inspired by a dream about an antique piece of lace Brunonia Barry was once given by her grandmother, The Lace Reader was originally self-published. Embraced by local Salem booksellers, the book was soon discovered by an American agent and within months it was on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Brunonia Barry The Lace Reader HarperCollins UK / pbk / € 10,95

Brunonia Barry’s The Lace Reader is a bewitching readA literary page-turner with depth, narrative power and a richly-imagined story

Brunonia Barry

Written with burning inten-sity in the last years of his life, 2666 has been greeted across the world as Roberto Bolaño’s masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. 2666 is set in a fi ctional city on the US-Mexican border, spanning a twentieth century of corrup-tion, violence and decadence.

Hair-raising and enthralling, Amulet is another brilliant example of Roberto Bolaño’s art.

It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing gov-ernment of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die.

When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-fl oor ladies’ room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the fl oor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico City–inventing and reinventing freely–and along the way she creates a cosmol-ogy of literature.

As they grow ever more hal-lucinatory, her “memories” become mythologies before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies. Amulet is a highly charged and heart-breaking novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America.

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Fans in The Netherlands are just now discovering the Young Adult fantasy series House of Night (HoN), following the adventures of sixteen year old Zoey Redbird. When Zoey gets Marked as a fl edgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change..

Could you tell us more about the Vampyre world you’ve created?I’ve created a wonderfully unique version of the vampyre mythos by basing my vampyrism on biology – thanks to my father who is a biologist. It is also a unique vision because my HoN society is matriarchal. The series was inspired by my agent, Meredith Bernstein. She said she’d like to see me write a series set at a vampyre fi nishing school. I’d been teaching high school English for more than a decade, so my mind naturally went to the YA genre, and the House of Night was born!The sixth book in the series, Tempted, was published last month. Do you have a favourite among the six books? And, will there be more?

PC: My favorite is Tempted.KC: My favorite is Chosen.

Yes, there will be more! We’recontracted for 12 HoN books.

Are there plans for screen adaptations? And if you could pick a cast, who would you prefer to play Zoey?The books have been optioned by Michael Birnbaum at Empire Pictures, though fi lming hasn’t begun. We really don’t have a cast in mind. It’s especially hard for me (PC) because I based Zoey on Kristin when she was a teenager, so all I see is a young Kristin while I write the books. I’m sure our producer will do a wonderful job choosing the cast, though!

Could you tell us something about the process of writing together with your daughter/mother? Kristin and I do a little brainstorming, and then I write the entire fi rst draft of the manuscript, making notes to Kristin in the text. Then I send the completed manuscript to Kristin and she goes through it,answering my comments and basically being sure I don’t make Zoey sound or think too old.

Kristin sends the manuscript back to me, and I go through it again before turning it in to our editor. It sounds like a long process, and it can be, but we enjoy it very much.

Twilight meets Gossip Girl….

P.C. Cast & Kristin CastThe House of Night series: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, TemptedAtom / pbks / € 9,95

From New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris comes the next installment in The Sookie Stackhouse series. The Sookie books are Southern mys-teries , well-paced, full of roman-tic tension and supernatural ac-tion. This enormously successful series has been made even more popular by the adaptation of the books into a TV show, created by the producers of Dexter.

Entitled True Blood it features a blonde Anna Paquin who plays the telepathic barmaid Sook-ie with British hunk Stephen Moyer as Sookie’s on/off lover Bill the vampire and Alexander

Skarsgard, thrice voted Swe-den’s sexiest man, as Eric, the Viking vampire.

HBO’s second season premiere of True Blood was the most-watched program on the network since The Soprano’s fi nale. The Netherlands is on the brink of airing the series this autumn. For the impatient fans, there is good news. A series of beautiful tv tie-ins is available on the market at the moment.

Charlaine Harris Dead and GoneGollancz / pbk Celebration price € 15,00Previously published:Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club DeadGollancz / pbk / € 9,95

The second book in the heart-stopping Hunger Games trilogyKatniss Everdeen survived the brutal Hunger Games. Now the Capitol wants revenge. Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay...

Suzanne Collins Catching Fire Scholastic / pbk / € 10,95

Anathemby Neal Stephenson

A work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imaginationNeal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confu-sion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryp-tonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. His latest novel, New York Times bestseller Anathem is now out in paperback.

Anathem delivers the best of Neal Stephenson: a fascina-ting far future world; complex, multi-faceted characters; and an intriguing, intellectually adventurous plot.

Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathema-ticians. There, he and his co-horts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and un-predictable “saecular” world, an endless landscape of ca-sinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrope. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teach-ers are sent forth without warning into the unknown.

Praise for Stephenson:Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heart-breaking, and thrilling.– Time Magazine

Neal Stephenson Anathem HarperCollins US / pbk / € 8,95

She loved her country She hated zombiesFollowing in the bloodied footsteps of Pride and Preju-dice and Zombies, we see the well-known historical events of Queen Victoria’s early life and Albert’s death given an hilari-ous, demonic twist. The novel takes you to the smoggy, cob-bled streets of Victoria’s vile and villainous Britain, but not as you know them...

A.E. Moorat Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter Hodder&Stoughton / pbk / € 10,95

A never-before-seen glimpse into the world of the In-heritance cycleAlagaësia comes alive in a lush and detailed look at an unforgettable magical land. From elves, dwarves, Urgals, humans, and dragons, to the natural landscape and the magic it contains, Eragon himself off ers the reader an unsurpassed tour.

Christopher Paolini Eragon’s Guide to Alagaësia Knopf / hbk / € 23,95

Discover The House of Night SeriesBook News talks to authors P.C. and Kristin Cast

‘I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into that bar’

Charlaine Harris’ books are inspiration for hit series ‘True Blood’

Suzanne Collins Catching Fire

A.E. Moorat

Christopher Paolini

P.C. Cast & Kristin CastP.C. Cast & Kristin CastP.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

Charlaine Harris

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The movie everybody’s been waiting for: New Moon the sequel to Twilight

in Dutch cinemas from 20.11.2009!For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life

itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined.

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260 pages of mapping provide an amazingly detailed view of the world, and the illustrated thematic content covers the most important geographical issues of the day. The reference mapping, produced in the beautifully clear and distinctive Times style, has been completely revised with thousands of changes refl ecting recent geopolitical and geographical changes around the world. Updated plans of 32 of the world’s great cities are included on the reference maps of the country in which they are located for easy reference.

All thematic and statistical information in the introductory section has been reviewed and updated, with new information refl ecting current geographical and global issues. The section includes detailed information on such topics as world popu-lation, cities, climate, the envi-ronment and telecommunica-tions as well as updated details of all the worlds countries. The comprehensive index contains over 130,000 place names which are fully cross-referenced with alternative and former names.

A fully revised new edition of this

major world atlas in the leading

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a vacation, keeping in touch

with world news, solving quizzes

and crosswords or just exploring

the world this atlas has all the

information you need.

The Times Concise Atlas of

the World 11th edition

With FREE wall map of the world

Collins / hbk / € 99,00

(subscription price until 31.12.2009).

Armchair traveling with Lonely PlanetThe USA Book is a one-stop, comprehensive pictorial covering all corners of the USA and its territories.

The USA Book draws together the history, culture, politics, religions, legends, trademarks and essential experiences of America in one defi nitive pictorial. Discover what it means to be ‘from the Midwest,’ where the US territories fi t in, which state has the world’s largest ball of twine and how a common thread joins together an enormous patchwork of communities in this ever transforming country.

The USA BookLonely Planet / hbk / € 33,95

The Cities Book shows 200 of the world’s most exciting cities. Which will be the fi rst city you turn to in this lucky dip of a book?

Copenhagen? Buenos Aires? Shanghai? Or maybe you’ll fi nd out how much you want to go to Beirut or Nuuk. Who knew? The world is full of unmissable cities. This large format paperback will put a few more on your radar.Taking our cue from the buzz on the street, we have captured the fl avour of the world’s top 200 cities through the eyes of the typical citizen: hot conversation topics, urban myths, the best places to eat and drink and to seek out after dark. This pictorial mixes a tempting cocktail for the urban adventurer.

The Cities BookLonely Planet / pbk / € 24,95

The Times ConciseAtlas of the WorldA fully revised new edition

The 365 best extreme life-changing tasksIf this book doesn’t change

your life, you’re most probably dead.

If your life needs spicing up, this is your new bible!

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Little People…The collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered..

Little People in the CityBoxtree / hbk / € 15,95Little People in the City

‘Stuff You’ve Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn’t Quite Get Around to Learning’

Visual Aid provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple colourful and engaging way. This eclectic collection of illustrations and diagrams will get you up to speed on life’s basics, without the need for extensive reading—or even your utmost attention.

Visual Aid2 takes a further look at informative, useful and quirky facts with the emphasis on informing the reader of random things they probably wont have known before.

In a small, handy format these accessible guides are perfect for

anyone with an interest in visual stimuli or a thirst for general knowledge.

Visual Aid / Visual Aid 2 Black Dog / pbk / € 11,95

Join Britain’s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he fol-lows in his great friend Douglas Adams’ foot-steps with zool0gist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threat-ened animals on Earth.

In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a groundbreaking expedition, travelling the globe in search of the world’s endangered animals. Twenty years later, comic genius Stephen Fry is returning with Mark to see if the species still exist. A major BBC television series follows the two on six separate journeys which take them to the Amazon basin, East Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand, Indonesia and Mexico to look for a fl ightless parrot, the Amazonian manatee, man-eating Komodo dragons, man’s closest living relative, the northern white rhino and

an animal so bizarre it seems to have been assembled from bits of other creatures. These are not just travels to the four corners of the world, but a journey in time to open our eyes to what humans have done to the Earth in the 20 years since the original Last Chance to See expeditions. It is a unique insight into the disappearing world around us, by one of the most extraordinary, informed, enthusiastic and amusing partnerships.

Mark Carwardine & Stephen Fry Last Chance to SeeHarperCollins UK / hbk /€ 28,95

You can never know enough stuffBoost up your general knowledge

A unique insight into the disappearing world

around us

Visual Aid / Visual Aid 2

Copenhagen? Buenos Aires?

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Gordon Ramsay has earned an extraordinary 12 Michelin stars for his restaurants in London and New York. He’s also a popular TV presenter and he has published several cook books.

In this new book Gordon features his favourite recipes from around the world. Each chapter features a

diff erent country’s dishes that we love to eat, and would love to learn more about. Gordon delves into Middle Eastern, American, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, and British. There are recipes for starters, mains and desserts.

In addition, he explains certain techniques to go along with each type of cuisine. For example, he shows how to make Pasta, which is then transported into his recipe for Spinach, Ricotta and

Pinenut Ravioli, and Curry Paste which is used for a Fragrant Green Curry with Beef.

Also, each chapter begins with information on one of the best ingredients each cuisine has to off er, and fi ve ways in which to enjoy it, like his Spanish-inspired fi ve ways with piquillo peppers.

Once again Gordon Ramsay provides an innovative range of recipes to be cooked every day.

Gordon Ramsay’sWorld KitchenQuadrille / hbk / € 26,95

Jamie Oliver gets to the heart of American food in his new book Jamie’s America.

“America - A country of many contrasts. For me, it presented the ultimate food trip to explore places, ingredients, food culture and traditions. I wanted to get to the heart of great American food, to get past the junk and super-sized portions. I

set off on what I knew would be a completely inspiring trip.

I wasn’t wrong... from New York to New Orleans, the energy of Los Angeles to the big skies of Wyoming, I found what I was looking for: some of the most diverse and delicious recipes I’ve ever come across!

The incredible diversity in American cooking was a real revelation to me. So although I

went looking for ‘quintessential American food’, my conclusion is that there is no such thing; instead there’s a huge wealth of seriously exciting dishes. And with 120 recipes of them in this book, I’ll show you the quick and easy way to put a slice of America on your dinner table.”

‘‘What a trip!’’

Jamie Oliver Jamie’s America Michael Joseph / hbk / € 34,95

For those who appreci-ate the pleasures of the table, there are no hap-pier reasons to travel than to explore the world’s great culinary traditions.

Every cuisine tells a unique story about the local landscape, climate, history, and culture - Food Journeys of a Lifetime will introduce you to the farmers, fi shermen, bakers, and chefs who transform nature’s bounty into

a thousand gustatory delights. And once you’re appetite has been whetted, you’ll be able to try your own hand at some of these culinary delights, as the book features recipes you can try at home.

In addition, Food Journeys of a Lifetime will provide detailed, practical travel information to help make your dream food pilgrimage a reality. So what’s your pleasure? A pastrami sandwich in one of New York’s bustling delicatessens or

homemade jerk chicken from a local street vendor in Jamaica? Learning to cook delicious Chinese dumplings in Beijing or munching on hand-picked apples amid Vermont’s fall foliage?

Whatever your taste, Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe will have something on the menu for you.

Food Journeys of a LifetimeNat. Geographic / hbk / € 33,95

Football is a beautiful game, all over the world!Wherever you are on earth, it’s only a matter of time before you will come across children playing football. Another fi ve min-utes and you will probably fi nd yourself having a ball rolled to your feet as an invitation to join in the game. Across every conti-nent, football is a common language and a culture shared: a joy, a passion, an escape and an affi rmation of identity understood and celebrated by children - and their parents - in every country on earth.

For this unique collaborative project, football writer and broadcaster Tom Watt talked to the world’s top footballers about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argen-tina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Gilberto Silva; England’s David James and Scotland’s Craig Gordon; Italy’s Fabio Canna-varo, Spain’s Iker Casillas and France’s Franck Ribery; South Africa’s Benni McCarthy and Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu; the USA’s Landon Donovan and Shunsuke Nakamura from Japan; and, the world’s most famous player, David Beck-ham, the footballing icon who recently became England’s most capped outfi eld player.

The players’ own words are brought to life with over 130 full colour images which off er rare, emotive and striking insights into childhood all over the world and celebrate football’s ability to touch the lives of children - and adults - wherever the beautiful game is played.

Tom WattA Beautiful Game Abrams / hbk / € 27,95

Jamie shows the quick and easy way to put a little slice of America on your dinner table

Gordon Ramsay’s favourite recipes from around the worldAnother amazing cookbook in the ever-popular F-Word collection

500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe

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