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Faber & Faber Adult Publishers Group Canada Tokyo Redux by David Peace A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by Britain's most original writer The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ. Some men go mad, some men go missing . Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during Faber & Faber the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which On Sale: Sep 7/21 forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding 6.02 x 9.21 • 480 pages from for the past fifteen years. 9780571359127 • $25.50 • C-format paperback Fiction / Literary Some men do both . Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him. Author Bio David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of ten novels including the Red Riding Quartet, adapted for television by Channel Four in 2009, GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013, and most recently Patient X. He lives in Tokyo. Page 1 Customer Service | [email protected] | 1-800-663-5714 Publishers Group Canada Tokyo Redux by David Peace A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by Britain's most original writer The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ. Some men go mad, some men go missing . Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during Faber & Faber the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which On Sale: Sep 7/21 forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding 6.02 x 9.21 • 480 pages from for the past fifteen years. 9780571232000 • $32.95 • cl Fiction / Literary Some men do both . Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him. Author Bio David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of ten novels including the Red Riding Quartet, adapted for television by Channel Four in 2009, GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013, and most recently Patient X. He lives in Tokyo. Page 2 Customer Service | [email protected] | 1-800-663-5714 Publishers Group Canada Burntcoat by Sarah Hall An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian). You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world. Faber & Faber Author Bio On Sale: Nov 9/21 Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Twice nominated for the Man Booker 5.08 x 7.8 • 240 pages prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and two short story 9780571329311 • $25.50 • cl collections - The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico Fiction / Literary prizes, and Madame Zero, winner of the East Anglian Book Award and the 2018 Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award, and a Guardian and Sunday Times book of the year 2017. She is currently the only author to be three times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, winning it in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' Page 3 Customer Service | [email protected] | 1-800-663-5714 Publishers Group Canada Wild Pets by Amber Medland A shrewd, elegant literary debut that tells one of the oldest stories in the world - first love - with joyous humour and wicked verve. Wild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each other, reread The Art of War, grieve the closing of Fabric and write book proposals on the history of salt, while submerging their nights in drink and drugs. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour against contemporary political and social turmoil, these young men and women seem to have everything going for them. So why are they still swimming desperately against the tide? A bold, honest novel, Wild Pets is about the fragility of mental health, power imbalances in friendship and sex, and creative ambition fused with destruction - and the lingering power of first loves. Faber & Faber Author Bio On Sale: Sep 9/21 Amber Medland read English Literature and has an MPhil in American 5.32 x 8.5 • 416 pages Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. She has an MFA in Fiction from 9780571358694 • $29.50 • cl Columbia University in New York. She was born in 1990 and lives in London Fiction / Literary @ambermedland Page 4 Customer Service | [email protected] | 1-800-663-5714 Publishers Group Canada Boys Don't Cry 'I can't remember ever reading something so moving.' Marian Keyes by Fiona Scarlett 'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving. I've had to go back to bed! It's so BEAUTIFUL and convincing and so so sad, but worth it because the story is so compelling.' MARIAN KEYES 'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving . It's so beautiful.' MARIAN KEYES They say boys don't cry. But Finn's seen his Da do it when he thinks no one's looking, so that's not true. And isn't it OK to be sad, when bad things happen? They say boys don't cry, but you might . Faber & Faber On Sale: Jul 1/21 'Unforgettable.'Donal Ryan 5.32 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9780571366071 • $25.50 • cl 'Authentic to the bone'Kit de Waal Fiction / Literary It will break your heart in a million different ways.'Louise O'Neill 'Powerful and poignant.'Ruth Hogan 'Hilarious and heartbreaking.'Louise Nealon What readers are saying: 'Fiona Scarlett is certainly up there with the likes of Roddy Doyle . A beautifully written, authentic novel, that will make you both laugh and cry, I just want to recommend this book to everyone.' 'This is a heartbreaking and very emotional novel that is exquisitely written. Fiona's writing style helps to bring such raw emotion to the text that it was impossible to not shed a tear!' 'I cried so much reading this book . A stunning read that I'll be thinking about for a long time.' 'There is a lot of humour to balance the heartache . All humanity is here, in all its shades, and that's what stays with you long after you finish reading. A brilliant debut Page 5 Customer Service | [email protected] | 1-800-663-5714 Publishers Group Canada Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell 'Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.' Kevin Barry 'Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.' Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from 'home'. Taking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights - from Faber & Faber Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinead O'Connor - Intimacies offers On Sale: Jul 15/21 keenly felt and subtly revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of 5.32 x 8.5 • 176 pages modern life.
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