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Through journal entries required by their social worker at a juvenile detention center, middle-schoolers Katie, Nate, and Renata relate how they came to kidnap their tormentor, Chase, a star athlete from the town's most prominent family, who surprisinglybecame their willing victim.

Second Faber collection of new Irish short stories to be edited by David Marcus
Will again consist of an equal mix of established names, the younger emerging generation and previously unpublished authors
The first collection has subbed nearly 4000 copies to date and has been extremely well received.

Ned and Nina are trying to conceive, so when Ned jets off with no notice to the funeral of Douglas, a mysterious friend from his student days, Nina follows him so they can have sex on time. Douglas was the ringleader of a fellowship of chums at NYU and Nina is baffled by the extraordinary hold the group ...

Dermot Bolger's superb new novella explores what changes in the human condition and what remains inalterably enduring.

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible. This evocative book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places.

The Last Hangman is a powerful, sparsely written novel that explores, in brutal detail and measured prose, the life of a man who killed for a living.

Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.

Joel, aka 'The Rink' (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. her troublemaker boyfriend, Tani; Tani's mother, Madame Levi; Yeznig, their younger son, who has learning difficulties but perfect memory recall;

Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre, Miranda, The Tudors) plays Rosa Bud; Julia McKenzie (Cranford, Miss Marple) plays the Reverend's mother, Mrs Crisparkle; Amber Rose Revah (House Of Saddam) plays Helena Landless, Neville's twin sister;

Angels of Destruction is the mesmerising story of Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialise out of thin air when she arrives one bitterly cold night on the doorstep of Margaret Quinn.

A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

A gritty, fast-paced thriller about the criminal underworld along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border - and the young cop who goes undercover to bring it down.

The story is a political thriller. The shooting of US senator Charles McKinsey and the near fatal car crash of media tycoon John Rochester, both in Washington, trigger an investigation by reporter Mike McCabe.The story that unfolds is a thrilling contemporary tale of violence, political intrigue, conspiracy ...

In rural North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, endures tremendous family challenges and tragedies against a backdrop of Reconstruction, industrialization, and the outbreak of World War I.

A heartbreaking story of love, loss and grief.

Bold, brave and darkly funny, Triburbia explores the experience of fatherhood in the modern world.

Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman, ex-soldier and now newest reporter on the Glasgow Gazette, has no shortage of material for his crime column.

But even Brodie baulks at his latest subject: a rapist who has been tarred and feathered ...

Paul Wood was just a tourist in battle-scarred Sarajevo. Then an unexpected encounter changed his life. Now he is a desperate woman's only hope of escape. To get her to safety, he must find a way through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia.

A teenage boy befriends a former German soldier in a small Austalian town. Amid the lies and deceit, both must decide what to do with the other.

Claire Vaye Watkins sets her stories in her home of Nevada whose state motto is 'Battle Born'. The stories here are of hardship and violence, and of redemption.