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OCTOBER 2018 CATALOGUE New Foreign Fiction October 2018

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French New Fiction ...... 4 Reprints ...... 10 Translations into French ...... 16 German New Fiction ...... 18 Reprints ...... 21 Translations into German ...... 22 Italian New Fiction ...... 24 Translations into Italian ...... 27 Polish New Fiction ...... 27 Translations into Polish ...... 30 Russian New Fiction ...... 31 Translations into Russian ...... 34 Spanish New Fiction ...... 34 Reprints ...... 38 Translations into Spanish ...... 40

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New Fiction Aillon, Jean d'. Le grand incendie - Les enquêtes de Louis Fronsac, 2018, Plon, pp.451, 9782259263429, £22.99 1666. France has just declared war on England. So Louis Fronsac is surprised - and worried - when a gray eminence from London asks him to find a jewel belonging to the Stuarts. Should he accept? It is a trap set by his enemies? Alaoui, Meryem. La vérité sort de la bouche du cheval, 2018, Gallimard, pp.272, 9782072777929, £21.00 Jmiaa, a prostitute in Casablanca, lives alone with her daughter. Her life changes the day she meets Chadlia who is looking for actresses to make her first film about the life of a popular area of the city. Almendros, Vincent. Faire mouche, 2018, Editions de Minuit, pp.126, 9782707344212, £11.40 Laurent doesn't want to return to his childhood village where he doesn't have very good memories. But for his cousin’s wedding, he heads for Saint-Fourneau with his friend. On arrival the tension is palpable and will continue to grow. Angot, Christine. Un tournant de la vie, 2018, Flammarion, pp.192, 9782081444218, £19.99 The narrator meets an ex-boyfriend on the street. From there they start a new relationship. A text in dialogues which could be a play. Aubenque, Alexis. La fille de la plage, 2018, Hugo Roman, pp.466, 9782755637021, £17.50 Four friends, four love stories. A young girl found unconscious on the beach is suffering from amnesia… who is she and what does she want? Authier, Christian. Des heures heureuses, 2018, Flammarion, pp.272, 9782081430891, £23.50 A dive into the world of wine where a friendship between two men grows from drunkenness and encounters with truculent characters in a world of parties, tastings and escapades. Barde-Cabuçon, Olivier. Le carnaval des vampires: Une enquête du commissaire aux morts étranges, 2018, Actes Sud Noir, pp.384, 9782330096601, £21.85 Olivier Barde-Cabuçon presents a novel of Gothic atmosphere, original and breathless, and throws his two investigators into their most bloody police investigation yet. Beauvais, Clémentine. Brexit romance, 2018, Sarbacane Editions, pp.446, 9782377311453, £17.20 A year after the Brexit vote, Marguerite comes to London with a brilliant business idea… BESTSELLER Begag, Azouz. Mémoires au soleil, 2018, Seuil, pp.185, 9782021392005, £17.50 A deeply moving text on identity, parentage and Franco-Algerian memory. We follow a father struck by "Ali Zaimeur's" illness and his son. Begaudeau, François. En guerre, 2018, Verticales, pp.304, 9782072776793, £20.00 A dark social novel in which the author draws a picture of our society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Beigbeder, Frédéric. La frivolité est une affaire sérieuse, 2018, Editions de l'Observatoire, 9791032904985, £19.99 100 texts by Beigbeder gathered from 1980 until today. Berthier, Jean. 1144 livres, 2018, Robert Laffont, pp.166, 9782221203217, £12.50 The narrator inherits 1,144 books from a mother he has never known. Should he accept the inheritance of someone who abandoned him? Who was the woman hidden behind these books? Beuglet, Nicolas. Complot, 2018, XO, pp.496, 9782845639812, £20.50 Crime committed on an isolated Norwegian island has grave consequences for the situation in France. Bizot, Véronique. Futurs parfaits, 2018, Actes Sud, pp.158, 9782330096373, £17.80 Eleven uplifting stories, with unexpected turns and twists, where characters are the subjects of a possible new life.

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Bosc, Adrien. Capitaine, 2018, Stock, pp.392, 9782234078192, £23.50 In March 1941, Captain Paul Lemerle leaves the port of Marseille on an eventful trip. It will end in June of the same year. It has people from all walks of life, fleeing what will become World War II. Boualem, Sansal. Le train d’Erlingen ou La métamorphose de Dieu, 2018, Gallimard, 9782072798399, £20.00 Ute von Ebert, the last heiress of an industrial empire, lives in Erlingen in Germany. Her daughter lives in London. She describes her life in Erlingen besieged by an enemy who believes in the "unique law of humanity". Bouillier, Grégoire. Le Dossier M: vol. 2, 2018, Flammarion, pp.868, 9782081414594, £23.80 The second volume of the Dossier M, a literary love story embracing many genres. Bouraoui, Nina. Tous les hommes désirent naturellement savoir, 2018, JC Lattès, pp.264, 9782709660686, £19.99 The narrator retraces her childhood, her adolescence, her years as a student, torn between Algeria and Brittany. Bourdeaut, Olivier. Pactum salis, 2018, Finitude Editions, pp.256, 9782363390905, £18.50 The friendship between a misanthropic salt marsh worker and an ambitious real estate agent. One leads an almost monastic life, happily disconnected from any technology, while the second proudly parks his Porsche in front of nightclubs. Bourdin, Françoise. Hors-saison et autres nouvelles, 2018, Belfond, pp.192, 9782714479525, £19.99 Ten intense texts where the author explores topics of parent-child relationships and abandonment. We follow diverse characters in the quest for love and happiness. BESTSELLER Bussi, Michel. Sang famille, 2018, Presses de la Cité, pp.494, 9782258113091, £23.50 Colin would never have thought that his stay on the island of his childhood would be so hectic or that so many mysteries would be revealed. Castillon, Claire. Ma grande, 2018, Gallimard, pp.160, Books – Other, 9782072786259, £14.60 A man killed his wife. This is a long monologue to tell the facts. A story of domination in the couple. Chainas, Antoine. Empire des chimères, 2018, Gallimard, pp.672, 9781138907119, £25.99 The immersion of three teenagers in a theme park seems to blur in their minds the border between fiction and "real life". Chattam, Maxime. Le signal, 2018, Albin Michel, 9782226319487, £23.99 The Spencer family has just moved to Mahingan Falls. A haven of peace. At least that's what they thought. BESTSELLER Claudel, Philippe. L'archipel du chien, 2018, Stock, pp.288, 9782234085954, £21.50 On an island in the “Dog's Archipelago” a small community leads a simple life away from the noise of the world. Until the day three bodies are found and the inhabitants are forced to reveal their true natures. Clément, Gilles. Le grand B.A.L., 2018, Actes Sud, pp.272, 9782330104337, £21.80 The Etruscan shrew Zephirine, the smallest mammal in the world, is now in the hands of the great B.A.L, an international consortium which took control of the planet after the War of the Clouds. The investigation will be led by a group of marginals. BESTSELLER Le Clézio, Jean Marie Gustave. Sous le ciel de Séoul, 2018, Stock, pp.224, 9782234085732, £19.50 Bitna, 18, invents stories for Salome, a young girl immobilized by an incurable disease. Bitna discovers that she exerts a new power over a human being, but also that she is being observed. Cohen, Benoît. Mohammad, ma mère et moi, 2018, Flammarion, pp.275, 9782081421202, £22.99 A young migrant from Afghanistan tells his story to the son of the woman who welcomed him into her home. Cossé, Laurence. L'avalanche (nuit sur la neige), 2018, Gallimard, pp.144, 9782072801273, £13.50 The story of a young Frenchman in 1935 in the France of the inter-war period. Daoud, Kamel. Le peintre dévorant la femme, 2018, Stock, pp.140, 9782234083738, £17.99 The author is reflecting on Picasso and his relationship with eroticism.

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Delacourt, Grégoire. La femme qui ne vieillissait pas, 2018, JC Lattès, pp.245, 9782709661836, £18.99 Martine is a happy young woman, teacher, mother and wife. One day, at thirty-five she realizes she is no longer aging. We then discover her past life and the difficulties she faced. Desmarteau, Claudine. Un mois à l'ouest, 2018, Thierry Magnier, pp.176, 9791035201470, £14.10 The wandering of the young Fred in North America of the 80s, told with the words of today. Destombes, Sandrine. Les jumeaux de Pioleng, 2018, Hugo et Compagnie, pp.400, 9782755637618, £20.99 1989, twins go missing but only one body is found. Twenty years later new disappearances of children occur in the same region. Winner of the RTL Prize for best French Thriller 2018 (Michel Bussi) Djian, Philippe. A l'aube, 2018, Gallimard, pp.192, 9782070143214, £19.00 Marlon and his sister Joan have just buried their parents who died in a car accident. They must now learn to live together in the family house. An old friend tries to convince them to undertake mysterious excavations in the cellar. Ducret, Diane. La meilleure façon de marcher est celle du flamant rose, 2018, Flammarion, pp.284, 9782081421691, £21.50 A young woman interrogates her destiny and the fractures that make up her life...the answer: Be weak or become a pink flamingo on fragile legs, gracefully balanced by the power of the spirit. A humoristic novel about the courage to remain oneself. Duval, Suzanne. L'agente, 2018, P.O.L, pp.254, 9782818044384, £17.50 The story of a property agent who leads a double life. Ferrari, Jérôme. A son image, 2018, Actes Sud, 9782330109448, £19.00 This novel written in the form of a requiem for a deceased photographer is also an opportunity to evoke Corsican nationalism, the violence of modern wars and the ambiguous links between image, photography, reality and death. Fives, Carole. Tenir jusqu'à l'aube, 2018, Gallimard, 9782072797392, £17.00 A young single mother takes care of her two-year-old son, from morning to night. She allows herself to escape some nights, a few meters from the apartment first, then always a little further, always a little later, in pursuit of a semblance of lightness. BESTSELLER Foenkinos, David. Vers la beauté, 2018, Gallimard, pp.224, 9782072784873, £19.20 Antoine Duris is a professor at the Beaux-Arts. From one day to the next, he decides to leave everything to become a warden in a museum. Nobody knows the reasons for this sudden change. Garat, Anne-Marie. Le grand Nord-ouest, 2018, Actes Sud, pp.320, 9782330096588, £21.50 Late 1930s, Yukon, Alaska. A woman flees California with a child braving the dangers on the tracks of the Amerindian territories of the Far North. Giebel, Karine. Toutes blessent la dernière tue, 2018, Belfond, pp.735, 9782714479501, £22.99 One morning, Gabriel discovers a stranger who has taken refuge in his home. A young woman injured and amnesic. Who is she? Grainville, Patrick. Falaise des fous, 2018, Seuil, pp.650, 9782021375374, £22.50 Here, the characters are called Courbet, Boudin, Monet, Flaubert, Maupassant. A beautiful historical novel by Patrick Grainville. Grand, Emmanuel. Kisanga, 2018, Liana Levi, pp.392, 9791034900022, £20.99 France and China must sign a partnership to operate a copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The evidence of an illegal market risks jeopardizing this lucrative market for France. A relentless thriller on the new games of influence in Africa. Grangé, Jean-Christophe. Terre des morts, 2018, Albin Michel, pp.553, 9782226392091, £25.99 An expedition to the land of the dead, the land of the damned souls ... The new novel by JC Grangé is a dive into human darkness. Guay de Bellissen, Héloïse. Dans le ventre du loup, 2018, Flammarion, pp.336, 9782081411012, £21.50 A young woman opens the archives of the Annecy court to return to the events that destroyed her family thirty years ago.

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BESTSELLER Guène, Faïza. Millenium blues, 2018, Fayard, pp.234, 9782213681245, £20.50 The tormented course of Zouzou, as a child, teenager, woman and finally mother. Each episode of her life is closely related to an event: The 1998 World Cup, 11 September 2001, the second round of the 2002 presidential election… Haddad, Hubert. Casting sauvage, 2018, Zulma, pp.160, 9782843048050, £16.99 Damya, a former dancer injured during the attack of November 13, roams the streets of Paris in search of extras for a movie about war and deportation. She is also looking for the stranger she had arranged to meet in a café the day of the attack. Jardin, Alexandre. Les nouveaux amants, 2018, Livre de Poche, 9782253070948, £8.99 A successful playwright does not realise that he will be living - and not just in writing - the most turbulent play of his life. Joncour, Serge. Chien-Loup, 2018, Flammarion, pp.475, 9782081421110, £19.95 A couple rents an isolated house in the country. Serge Joncour tells the story, a century away, of a village in the Lot, and it is a past inhabited by animals and wiped out by the war. Kerangal, Maylis de. Un monde à portée de main, 2018, Verticales, pp.288, 9782072790522, £20.00 The career of a painter from school, through her professional debut to the Lascaux IV site. Knidler, Céline. L'Equilibre du funambule, 2018, Larousse, pp.278, 9782035956293, £16.50 Ornicar Garthauser is a roofer and spends his life on the rooftops of Paris. Helle explores the depths of the city and hides a mysterious secret. One day, Ornicar accidentally falls and Helle helps him. Together, they will live extraordinary adventures. Kuperman, Nathalie. Je suis le genre de fille, 2018, Flammarion, pp.224, 9782081417472, £17.65 Comical scenes from the life of an ordinary woman in her fifties who has renounced love but dreams of being loved. Laferrière, Dany. Autoportrait de Paris avec chat, 2018, Grasset, pp.320, 9782246815839, £24.50 In this hand-drawn and hand-written novel, the narrator travels to Paris and goes back in time to discover the places and personalities that made the city famous. Lalumière, Jean-Claude. Miss, 2018, Arthaud, pp.297, 9782081396302, £23.99 Morgane Bellamy enters herself into France's Most Beautiful Woman contest. Determined and clever, she decides to set traps for her competitors to eliminate them one by one and win the title. A comedy full of twists! Laurain, Antoine. Millésime 54, 2018, Flammarion, pp.265, 9782081408654, £17.85 Four characters drink a bottle of wine from 1954 together and end up time travelling back in time. They discover Paris in the 50s. A feel good novel. Le Romancer, Frédérique. 3 Bis, rue Riquet, 2018, Denoel, pp.288, 9782207141014, £19.99 One apartment building in Toulouse. Here we find Cecile on the ground floor, who never leaves her flat, Lucie who is out clubbing all the time while dreaming of her prince charming, and Mado, a semi retired prostitute whose new landlord is trying to evict her. Ledig, Agnès. Dans le murmure des feuilles qui dansent, 2018, Albin Michel, pp.389, 9782226403131, £21.99 To help her write her novel, Anaëlle starts up a correspondence with Hervé, a provincial prosecutor. Thomas, a carpenter, helps his little brother who is hospitalized. Soon, these two destinies will become entwined. Legardinier, Pascale & Gilles. Comme une ombre, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.285, 9782290161791, £14.50 Alexandra doesn't want the bodyguards employed by her father to follow her everywhere. Things will change with the new one that her father has chosen. Lépée, Denis. Les engloutis, 2018, Les Editions de l'Observatoire, pp.400, 9791032901625, £22.50 Archaeologist Tommaso Mac Donnel is travelling to Kotka, Finland, to conduct an expert appraisal of an offshore wind farm project. Strangely, both critics and project proponents try to dissuade him from carrying out his mission.

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Leroy, Jérôme. La petite gauloise, 2018, Manufacture de Livre, pp.141, 9782358872522, £13.50 In a city of the West in a near future, in a context of (anti) terrorist struggle, the author throws us cops, Muslim extremists, a drunk teacher , students from the suburds, and a everything rests in the hands of a young girl. —— Terminus Nord, 2018, French Pulp editions, pp.288, 9791025103210, £15.50 The new Nestor Burma investigations. Leroy, Lionel. Eugénia, 2018, Julliard, pp.487, 9782260030003, £21.99 The portrait of a free woman during the rise of the Nazis. BESTSELLER Levy, Marc. Une fille comme elle, 2018, Robert Laffont/ Versilio, pp.375, 9782221157862, £22.50 A comedy set in New York. L'Homme, Erik. Déchirer les ombres, 2018, Calmann-Lévy, pp.160, 9782702163030, £16.99 Straddling his Harley with revenge in mind, a former special forces officer takes the niece of his ex- lieutenant, thirty years his junior, on a road trip down his memory lane. BESTSELLER Littell, Jonathan. Vieille histoire, 2018, Gallimard, pp.384, 9782072776847, £21.00 Seven consecutive variations on the same frame and around the same themes: A narrator comes out of a pool, gets changed and runs down a grey corridor. He discovers doors which open onto places where human relationships are being played out. Loiseau, Florent. Paris-Venice, 2018, pp.238, 9782370731586, £18.99 Roman has just found a job on the Paris-Venice, Europe's night train. The traffic of illegal immigrants, drunk customs officers, pickpockets... Anything can happen in this travelling theatre. Even falling in love. Loridan-Ivens, Marceline. L'amour après, 2018, Grasset, pp.156, 9782246812432, £16.50 In her new book, Marceline Loridan-Ivens opens "her suitcase of love", full of epistolary memories of all kinds, letters and notes from the men in her life. Louis, Edouard. Qui a tué mon père, 2018, Seuil, pp.96, 9782021399431, £12.50 Edouard Louis evokes his father in an angry and poignant book. Martin-Lugand, Agnès. A la lumière du petit matin, 2018, Michel Lafon, pp.334, 9782749929026, £19.99 Hortense is a dance teacher who is in a relationship with a married man. After a banal accident, she reconsiders her life. Meurice, Guillaume. Cosme, 2018, Flammarion, pp.331, 9782081425620, £21.50 The comedian Guillaume Meurice introduces us to the many facets and talents of Cosme Olvera, who holds the key to Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles". Michel, Luce. Sérieux Lola, 2018, Pygmalion, pp.368, 9782756421483, £17.95 Lola, 39, Parisian, single, wise (sometimes). Like any woman, she hopes to meet Prince Charming, but she would prefer someone simply available rather than a guy with a horse. Seriously, have you ever tried to park a horse in Paris? Mihami, Maude. Les dix voeux d'Alfréd, 2018, Nil, pp.240, 9782841119554, £18.99 Charming and humorous story about little Alfréd growing up in a Breton village. Minier, Bernard. Soeurs, 2018, XO, pp.464, 9782374480343, £22.50 A nightmare written in black ink. Moran, Patrick. La crécerelle, 2018, Mnémos, pp.300, 9782354086138, £19.00 A dark fantasy novel. Mougin, Dominique. Où passe l'aiguille, 2018, Flammarion, pp.452, 9782081395558, £22.99 From a concentration camp to the summit of French haute couture, here is Tomi's journey, her miraculous life, deviated by history, saved by beauty. BESTSELLER Musso, Guillaume. La jeune fille et la nuit, 2018, Calmann-Lévy, 9782702163634, £22.99 Côte d'Azur - Winter 1992. Vinca Rockwell, 19, elopes with her philosophy teacher with whom she was in a secret relationship. Nobody will ever see her again. In 2017 her best friends, who have not spoken since the end of their studies, meet up again.

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Musso, Valentin. Dernier été pour Lisa, 2018, Thriller Seuil, pp.400, 9782021390117, £20.99 A high school student investigates the murder of her best friend. Welcome to Black Oak, a peaceful American village where Lisa spent her last summer. A very dark thriller. Noguez, Dominique. L'interruption, 2018, Gallimard, pp.231, 9782081343627, £19.50 The obstacle course of an applicant at the College de France offers material for Dominique Noguez’ tasty description of Parisian vanities. BESTSELLER Nothomb, Amélie. Les prénoms épicènes, 2018, pp.154, 9782226437341, £18.99 The story of a father-daughter relationship. Oho Bambe, Marc Alexandre. Diên Biên Phù, 2018, Sabine Wespieser, pp.221, 9782848052823, £18.85 By recounting the return to Vietnam of a French soldier twenty years after Diên Bien Phù, Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe also offers us a beautiful love story. Pennac, Daniel. Mon frère, 2018, Gallimard, pp.144, 9782072786303, £14.75 Daniel Pennac talks about the loss of his brother. Rosnay, Tatiana de. Sentinelle de la pluie, 2018, Héloise d'Ormesson, pp.368, 9782350874425, £22.99 A family drama is taking place as the Seine is flooding. Rouart, Jean-Marie. La vérité sur la comtesse Berdaiev, 2018, Gallimard, pp.208, 9782072785269, £17.20 Already a victim of history that has condemned her to exile and ruin, Countess Berdaiev, a very beautiful aristocrat, will find herself involved in a scandal involving the political milieu at beginnings of the 5th Republic. Rufin, Jean-Christophe. Le suspendu de Conakry, 2018, Flammarion, 9782081416932, £21.99 The new book by J.C. Rufin is a thriller whose main character is a Romanian diplomat made Consul of France. BESTSELLER Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel. Madame Pylinska et le secret de Chopin, 2018, Albin Michel, 9782226435736, £14.50 Following the lessons of the tyrannical Madame Pylinska, the young Eric Emmanuel seeks to understand the mystery of Chopin's music. The Polish woman has surprising ways of explaining the genius of the musician. Seyer, Laurent. Les poteaux étaient carrés, 2018, Finiture, pp.137, 9782363390974, £15.15 The story of a teenager saved by football. Sire, Guillaume. Réelle, 2018, Les Editions de l'Observatoire, pp.305, 9791032902431, £19.00 The story of Johanna, a modest girl who will become the star of the first French reality TV show. Sollers, Philippe. Centre, 2018, Gallimard, pp.128, 9782072745218, £12.15 Nora, 40, is a psychoanalyst. Her lover, a controversial French novelist, takes a close interest in Freud and Lacan. He also wants to understand why, recently, against all odds, Paris has suddenly become the centre of a secret and new world. Tavernier, Tiffany. Roissy, 2018, Sabine Wespieser Editions, 9782848053035, £21.25 The narrator takes up residence in Roissy airport. Always moving, always pulling a small suitcase behind her, she goes from one terminal to the other, initiates conversations, and invents lives as an eternal traveller who never gets on a plane. Teulé, Jean. Entrez dans la danse, 2018, Julliard, pp.158, 9782260030119, £19.50 Alsace, 1519. A strange epidemic is sweeping the region — People are unable to stop dancing to the point of dropping dead. Thiéry, Danielle. Féroce, 2018, Flammarion, pp.540, 9782081421516, £21.99 The bones of a child are found at the Vincennes Zoo in the lion enclosure. Alix de Clavery, the OCRVP criminologist, immediately makes the connection with the young Swan, whose disappearance at the Thoiry Zoo six years ago continues to obsess him. Thilliez, Franck. Le manuscrit inachevé, 2018, Fleuve Noir, pp.526, 9782265117808, £22.99 An endless manuscript, an investigation without a body, and a corpse without a face make for a great thriller. www.grantandcutler.com 9 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

Van Cauwelaert, Didier. J'ai perdu Albert, 2018, Albin Michel, pp.118, 9782226435378, £19.99 Preserved in formalin, the brain of physicist Einstein is bored and goes to visit other spirits. He meets Chloe, a famous clairvoyant. Werber, Bernard. La boîte de Pandore, 2018, Albin Michel, pp.560, 9782226438393, £23.99 There may be several hidden personalities in you. Do you know who you really are? Reprints Abécassis, Eliette. Philothérapie, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.316, 9782290140840, £8.50 Tired of failed relationships, Juliette joins the online philotherapy class of a strange professor. Akrich, Anne. Il faut se méfier des hommes nus, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.314, 9782290161289, £9.50 Cheyenne Cohen, of Polynesian origin, is sent to Tahiti to write a script about Marlon Brando. Her memories collide with the tumultuous episodes in the life of the actor. As for the filming, it will turn into madness, then disaster. Appanah, Nathacha. Tropique de la violence, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.192, 9782072764578, £7.50 Prix Femina des lycéens 2016. In Mayotte, Moses, a child rejected by his mother, is adopted by a nurse named Marie. When he learns the truth about his origins, Moses rebels and falls under the control of Bruce and his gang. Artus, Isabelle. La petite boutique japonaise, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.317, 9782290134757, £8.99 Pamela, a waitress in a Japanese restaurant, dreams of becoming a geisha. Thad is from Brittany and loves Kung Fu movies. They fall in love and when Thad disappears, Pamela goes to Japan to look for him. Astier, Ingrid. Haute voltige, 2018, Folio Policier, pp.720, 9782072797514, £10.75 Everything begins, one evening, with an attack on the convoy of a rich Saudi, on the outskirts of Paris. Major Suarez of the BRB (Brigade of Punishment of Banditry) is first on the scene. —— Quai des enfers, 2018, Folio Policier, pp.496, 9782072789885, £5.99 The corpse of a young woman draped in white and the business card of a famous perfumer are found at the Quai des Orfèvres in Paris. The Police embark on a haunting investigation. Bachelin, Christian. Soir de la mémoire, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.144, 9782710386643, £8.99 A nostalgic inventory of lost things and forgotten memories. Bannalec, Jean-Luc. L'inconnu de Port Bélon, 2018, Pocket, pp.414, 9782266281768, £9.99 Port Bélon, pearl of Brittany, famous all over the world for its oysters... And a theatre of new mysteries for the Commissaire Dupin. Bannel, Cédric. Kaboul express, 2018, Points, pp.336, 9782757869994, £8.99 A terrorism thriller. Barbérat, Angélique. La vie enfuie de Marta K., 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.446, 9782290153833, £9.99 Marta K. is found in a truck in Germany, on the Polish border. She doesn't remember her past, and even when she is introduced to her husband and children, her amnesia remains. She goes home, surrounded by her loved ones, with the feeling that she is missing someone. Bassignac, Sophie. Séduire Isabelle A., 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.212, 9782253070474, £8.99 Isabelle loves Pierre but will only marry him if her family agrees. Pierre meets his potential in-laws in the country for a week. It quickly turns into a nightmare. Beauvais, Clémentine. Songe à la douceur, 2018, Points, pp.247, 9782757873656, £8.99 When Tatiana meets Eugene, she is 14, he is 17. She falls in love with him and he with her, but he rejects her. Ten years later, they meet by chance. Tatiana has changed, Eugene too. Will they still go against their feelings? Bégaudeau, François. Molécules, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.272, 9782072793103, £7.50 Annecy, 1995. Jeanne Deligny, a 44 year old nurse, is found dead in her apartment. With no apparent reason for the crime, the investigators find it difficult to move forward. Bellanger, Aurélien. Le Grand Paris, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.514, 9782072793455, £8.99 The narrator of this novel is Alexandre Belgrand, a visionary urban planner whose project is The Grand Paris, a project that has been called “a vast questioning of the meaning of the city”.

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Bello, Antoine. Ada, 2018, Folio, pp.398, 9782072762239, £8.50 Frank Logan, a policeman in Silicon Valley, is in charge of a special case: finding Ada, an artificial intelligence robot designed to write romance novels. Faced with this computer programme which speaks, has a sense of humour, gives its opinion, and appears unstoppable, Frank is distraught. Berest, Claire & Anne. Gabriële, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.466, 9782253906636, £10.50 September 1908. 27-year-old Gabriële Buffet, a musician and feminist, meets Francis Picabia, a successful young painter with a sulphurous reputation. Blottière, Alain. Comment Baptiste est mort, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.224, 9782072762383, £7.50 Abducted with his family in the desert by jihadists, Baptiste, after several weeks of captivity, is the only one to be released. Gradually, he reveals his extraordinary and cruel story. Prix Decembre. Boissard, Janine. Dis, t'en souviendras-tu?, 2018, Plon, pp.267, 9782259260046, £19.99 Aude is the wife of a famous perfumer from Grasse. She wakes up in the hospital, deprived of some of her memory. She was found inanimate, on a deserted road not far from her husband's car. The doors were open and the car was empty. What happened to them? Boudart, Anne. Une marseillaise à la Haye, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.96, 9782253188308, £8.99 Anne Boudart, a talented young illustrator from Marseille, describes her move to Holland with a lot of humour. Bourdin, Françoise. Le choix des autres, 2018, Pocket, pp.384, 9782266286282, £10.75 Lucas, Clémence, Virgile and Philippine live together in a beautiful chalet in the Gap region. Everything will be turned upside down the day Clemence’s ex-husband, who has still not accepted their separation, turns up at their house. —— Face à la mer, 2018, Pocket, pp.334, 9782266277754, £8.50 Mathieu has devoted the last 20 years of his life to his bookshop. It has cost him his marriage, his relationship with his daughter, and now his sanity. Although many friends try to help him, it seems only his estranged daughter holds the key to his recovery. Bourdon, Françoise. Les roses sont éternelles, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.288, 9782253071037, £9.50 Four short stories taking place in the lands of the Midi. Bussi, Michel. T'en souviens-tu, mon Anaïs? - Et autres nouvelles, 2018, Pocket, pp.304, 9782266282437, £8.99 A young woman escapes Paris with her 3 year old to a villa in Normandy, where one hundred years earlier, an actress stayed. Soon the young woman feels spied on. Caillé-Bastide, Virginie. Le sans-Dieu, 2018, Pocket, pp.350, 9782266283243, £9.50 The story begins in 1709, in Brittany. Following a cold spell, Lord Arzhur de Kerloguen loses his children and wife. He is found a few years later sailing on the Caribbean Sea. He is no longer the same man, he is called the Shadow and everyone fears him. Causse, Jean-Gabriel. Les crayons de couleur, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.315, 9782290157732, £8.50 Arthur, a former alcoholic trader, works in a factory producing coloured pencils; Charlotte, a blind woman, is a specialist in colours. When colour disappears from the planet, they decide to ally themselves to save people from depression. Chérel, Gauillaume. Un bon écrivain est un écrivain mort, 2018, Mirobole, pp.254, 9782290154526, £10.50 During a literary event set in a monastery in the Alpes, celebrity writers disappear one by one. Chevalier, Séverine. Recluses, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.212, 9782710387213, £8.99 Zora blows up her belt of explosives in the heart of a hypermarket in the suburbs of Lyon, killing several people with her. Suzanne tries to understand her gesture and goes to visit the places where this girl lived with Zia, her disabled sister. Chomarat, Luc. Le polar de l'été, 2018, Points, pp.207, 9782757870679, £7.99 A writer is trying to write a summer thriller. It becomes a personal and paternal quest that leads him to question his position as son and father. Collette, Sandrine. Les larmes noires sur la terre, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.384, 9782253092629, £9.99 The story of a young migrant and her son who finds refuge in the slums, somewhere in France. www.grantandcutler.com 11 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

Colombiani, Laetitia. La tresse, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.237, 9782253906568, £8.99 The crossed paths of three women, on three different continents. In India, Smita longs to escape her menial life, Julia in Palermo who discovers that her family’s business is failing, and Sarah, a Canadian lawyer who learns that she has breast cancer. Decoin, Didier. Avec vue sur la mer, 2018, Mon Poche, 9782379130007, £8.50 In this book Didier Decoin tells us a story of love: the one he has been keeping for five years with a quirky little house in a peninsula of Contentin. Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste. Règne animal, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.496, 9782072763533, £8.99 The story of a family farm destined to become a pig farm. In this environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations are going through the cataclysm of war, economic disasters and the rise of industrial violence. Delzongle, Sonja. Récidive, 2018, Gallimard, pp.480, 9782072782541, £8.50 New York, spring 2014. Hanah Baxter, a French profiler who tracks serial killers, is back home after a trip to California. Little by little, strange events invade her daily life. Mysterious anonymous callers start ringing at any time. Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul. Macadam, 2018, Au Diable Vauvert, pp.160, 9782070468690, £6.50 A collection of stories full of dark humour. Djavani, Négar. Désorientale, 2018, Liana Levi, pp.352, 9782867469954, £10.99 A narrative about Iran in the seventies, France and identity. Prix du Style 2016 & Autre prix 2016. Ducrozet, Pierre. Eroica, 2018, Babel, pp.263, 9782330096946, £9.50 A biographical novel on Jean-Michel Basquiat. Dusapin, Elisa Shua. Hiver à Sokcho, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.160, 9782072771842, £6.99 In Sokcho, a small port city near North Korea, a young woman cooks for the rare visitors. They have come to isolate themselves from the world. The arrival of a Frenchman, a comic book author, breaks the monotony of winter. Robert Walser Prize. Ernaux, Annie. Mémoire de fille, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.164, 9782072763137, £7.50 The author evokes the summer of her first time and the girl she used to be. —— Le vrai lieu, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.128, 9782072779657, £6.99 Annie Ernaux looks back on her personal journey, which determined her entry into the world of literature. Fives, Carole. Une femme au téléphone, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.112, 9782072779701, £6.50 A woman talks to her daughter on the phone: it's Charlene, an outgoing woman in her sixties who drinks, smokes, and dates men. She survived cancer and is not afraid to say what goes on in her heart, which for her daughter can be both touching and toxic. Forge, Sylvain. la trace du Silure, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.310, 9782253237396, £9.50 Police captain Isabelle Mayet leaves Paris to live in Nantes where she investigates the murder of a hermit who was found in a German bunker of the Second World War. Gallay, Claudie. Détails d'Opalka, 2018, Babel, pp.217, 9782330096960, £8.99 The biography of a painter which is an opportunity for Claudie Gallay to talk about her vocation as a writer. Two lives put in parallel. Gaudé, Laurent. Ecoutez nos défaites, 2018, Babel, pp.281, 9782330109431, £8.99 A French secret agent is sent to Beirut to find a former US sniper suspected of trafficking. There, he meets an Iranian archaeologist who is trying to save museum treasures from bombed cities. Gauthier, Brigitte. Personne ne le saura, 2018, Folio Policier, pp.272, 9782072797613, £9.95 In a swingers club, Anna has been drugged. When she awakes from her coma, she has lost everything. Her memory. The man she loves. The darkness remains but she will have to investigate. Gavalda, Anna. Fendre l’armure, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.288, 9782290155202, £8.99 A collection of seven short stories whose narrators reveal themselves and talk about the solitude of their lives; each story helping to build an impression of the benevolence of people, “ordinary heroes”. Grimaldi, Virginie. Le parfum du bonheur est plus fort sous la pluie, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.416, 9782253088110, £9.99 Everyday a woman writes to her ex-husband, describing a memory from their relationship, in an effort to win back his heart.

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Guégan, Gérard. Le sang dans la tête, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.208, 9782710387268, £7.99 A novel about love and racism, urban loneliness and right-wing extremism. Guez, Olivier. La disparition de Josef Mengele, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.256, 9782253073802, £8.99 Prix Renaudot 2017. 1949, Josef Mengele arrives in Argentina. This former SS doctor, guilty of atrocious experiments on the deportees in Auschwitz, believes he can reinvent himself in South America. Guilcher, Armelle. Les inconnus du bout du monde, 2018, Pocket, pp.320, 9782266285100, £8.50 A dive in the heart of Guyana with Marie and Alex, two characters at the crossroads of their lives. Haddad, Hubert. Le bleu du temps, 2018, Zulma, pp.192, 9782843048135, £10.99 A famous painter attaches himself to a lost girl, of whom he knows almost nothing. Soon the painter wants her to become his model to save her from herself. —— Corps désirable, 2018, Folio Gallimard, 9782072733185, £6.99 What would happen if your head was transplanted onto a new body? Hornakova-Civade, Lenka. Giboulées de soleil, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.319, 9782072701375, £8.99 Prix Renaudot des Lycéens. Three Czech women share the same fate: from mother to daughter, they grow up without a father. Can they break the curse? Incardona, Joseph. Chaleur, 2018, Pocket, pp.153, 9782266279758, £7.50 Every year in Finland, the world sauna championships take place. Niko, multiple winner, and Igor, his perpetual challenger, are both ready for victory. Ivoire, Paul. A chacun son rêve, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.313, 9782253070795, £9.50 Sylvain Balmont, a sales rep for a food company, wins the Euromillions jackpot thanks to Xavier Rosa, a homeless person. He wants to find the vagabond to thank him and help him, but he is dead. Sylvain decides to investigate the past of his benefactor. Jaeglé, Marianne. Vincent qu'on assassine, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.352, 9782072763236, £8.50 This novel traces the last two years of the painter's life and questions his tragic end. Who killed him and how did the legend of suicide last for one hundred and twenty years? Jolibert, Stéphane. Déclic, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.350, 9782253044758, £9.50 Leandre has a wife who hates him and two daughters who despise him. One morning, he finds an envelope in the mail that contains enough money to change a man's life. Kââ. Il ne faut pas déclencher les puissances nocturnes et bestiales, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.286, 9782710387312, £10.99 An action thriller with a lot of casualties by a classic author of the Noir novel. L'Ajar. Vivre près des tilleuls, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.156, 9782290139790, £8.99 A novel on the mourning of a mother but also a declaration of love to literature. Larher, Erwan. Marguerite n'aime pas ses fesses, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.313, 9782290159521, £8.50 An insecure and shy lady working for a publisher is asked to write the memoirs of the president of the Republic. Her life will suddenly change for the better. Laurain, Antoine. Ailleurs si j'y suis, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.158, 9782290147788, £6.99 A Parisian lawyer finds himself face to face with a 18th Century portrait which looks like him. Laurent, Jacques. Une sacrée salade, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.176, 9782710387367, £8.99 A behind closed door novel where a young lady must admit she had an abortion to a Police Inspector. The novel takes place in 1954. Legendre, Cyrille. Derrière la lumière, 2018, Editions du Masque, pp.288, 9782702448939, £9.99 Dan Mitlov is a charismatic presenter of the Prize Money game show. One day, at the end of the recording of a show, a young woman throws at him: "I know what you did, I know who you really are". Prix du Masque de l'année français. Levy, Marc. La dernière des Stanfield, 2018, Pocket, 9782266282086, £9.99 Eleanor Rigby is a journalist in London and George Harrison is a cabinetmaker in Quebec. They do not know each other. Each of them receives a similar letter from a raven who accuses their respective mothers of crimes.

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Lighieri, Rebecca. Les garçons de l'été, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.416, 9782072755200, £8.99 Zacchaeus and Thadée, two brothers, brilliant students and gifted surfers, display the charms of their youth in the wild summer of Reunion. But summer and youth have an end, and it can occur faster and more tragically than expected. Madjidi, Maryam. Max et la poupée, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.220, 9782290155110, £9.99 Prix Goncourt du premier roman 2017. The childhood memories of the author, born in Iran in the early hours of the revolution. Malte, Marcus. Le garçon, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.573, 9782072733239, £9.50 Femina prize 2016. The story of a boy who doesn't have a name and doesn't speak. Being quasi savage, the only world he knows is that of his mother and their cabin. In 1908 he discovers war and the madness of men. Manel, Laure. La délicatesse du homard, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.340, 9782253088172, £9.50 Following an unusual encounter, a man and a woman reveal their personal stories to each other. Martin-Lugand, Agnès. J’ai toujours cette musique dans la tête, 2018, Pocket, pp.384, 9782266282888, £9.50 Yanis and Vera are married and parents of three children. Yanis doesn't get on with his business partner, who is also Vera’s brother. He decides to start his own business but his problems are far from over. Mauvignier, Laurent. Continuer, 2018, Le editions de minuit, pp.240, 9782707344809, £9.99 A mother organises for her and her son a journey of several months on horseback in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Messina, Marion. Faux départ, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.221, 9782290164907, £7.99 A novel about a young couple’s struggle to fit in. Mréjen, Valérie. Troisième personne, 2018, POL, pp.112, 9782072755156, £8.25 An artist reflects on the upheaval caused in her life by the birth of her child. Musso, Guillaume. Un appartement à Paris, 2018, Pocket, pp.542, 9782266285025, £10.50 Two strangers rent by mistake the same Parisian studio that belonged to a famous artist. They discover that three paintings have disappeared. Musso, Valentin. La femme à droite sur la photo, 2018, Points, pp.499, 9782757871195, £9.99 In the 60s, in the United States, Elizabeth Badina, a rising actress disappears overnight. Forty years later, her son David, now a screenwriter, is contacted by Wallace Harris, the director who worked with Elizabeth on her last film. Ndiaye, Marie. La Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.320, 9782072763632, £8.99 A former kitchen assistant tells the story of the life and career of La Cheffe, a cook who had a period of glory. At the centre of the story, cooking is lived as a spiritual adventure. Pagan, Hugues. Profil perdu, 2018, pp.462, 9782743643362, £9.99 A love story whose background is a tragic criminal investigation. Pellegrino, Bruno et al. Stand-by - Saison 1, Tome 1, 2018, Zoé Editions, pp.176, 9782889274611, £13.50 When a volcano erupts in the Naples area, a massive cloud of ashes gradually paralyses Europe, grounding planes and blurring communications. Here is the story of the first twenty-four hours after the eruption. Prudhomme, Sylvain. Légende, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.320, 9782072765124, £8.99 1980. Arles. A band of young people eager for freedom, eager to live, to love, to dare. Among them two brothers who oppose everything. AIDS is already looming in the distance, with its four unspeakable letters. Who are these boys who are going to die? What will have been their life? Quignard, Pascal. Les larmes, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.224, 9782072721014, £7.50 A novel evoking the birth of a language by the Oath of Strasbourg, one of the earliest texts in a language that is distinctly French, pronounced in February 842 AD. Raufast, Pierre. La baleine thébaïde, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.230, 9782072755255, £7.50 A young man embarks as a cabin boy on a boat to northern Alaska to find the famous "whale 52", which sings at a frequency unique in the world and prevents him from finding a soul mate.

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Rault, Antoine. La danse des vivants, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.550, 9782253906537, £10.50 Summer 1918. In a military hospital, a young man wakes up with amnesia. He cannot remember his past or his name; he speaks good French and German. The French Secret Service consider him an ideal candidate for espionage. Reyboz, Cécile. Pouvoirs Magiques, 2018, Babel, pp.368, 9782330097011, £9.99 A funny homage to the generation of the 1970s, a declaration of love to Paris, its streets, squares, metro stations, and, above all, a facetious and sincere autobiography of a young woman and her journey. Reza, Yasmina. Babylone, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.224, 9782072733086, £7.50 Prix Renaudot 2016. After a neighbour's party, one of the guests comes back to the narrator’s flat and confesses to her that he has just killed his wife. What will our narrator do? Robert-Diard, Pascale. La déposition, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.208, 9782072696657, £7.50 In April 2014, Maurice Agnelet appeared at the assizes for the murder of his mistress, Agnes Roux who disappeared in 1977. After defending his father for so many years, Guillaume Agnelet makes an overwhelming deposition. Rouart, Jean-Marie. Une jeunesse perdue, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.177, 9782072765179, £6.99 A former seducer, bored of his conventional marriage, has an affair with a young woman. It isn’t long until his wife discovers the secret. Rufin, Jean-Christophe. Le tour du monde du roi Zibeline, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.416, 9782072793257, £8.99 The life of Auguste Benjowski, an aristocrat born in 1746 in Slovakia. He was an officer, a convict, an escapee, an explorer and the king of Madagascar and lived an intense love affair with Aphanasie, the daughter of a Siberian governor. Signol, Claude. Dans la paix des saisons, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.227, 9782253073994, £8.50 Out of the hospital, Matthieu has only one idea in mind: to leave Paris, take refuge in Quercy, with his grandparents who raised him. Slimani, Leila. Chanson douce, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.244, 9782072764929, £7.50 BESTSELLER. Winner of Goncourt Prize 2016. The story of two young children who are murdered by their nanny. Translated into English as "Lullaby". Sylvain, Dominique. Kabukicho, 2018, Points, pp.282, 9782757867860, £8.50 Kabukicho is a rather dreary city by day. At night, hostess bars and love hotels open. Marie, a young French woman, hopes to find a job there. Taret, Catherine. Il n'est jamais trop tard pour éclore, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.256, 9782290158920, £7.50 In a book halfway between an initiatory narrative and a book of personal development, Catherine Taret tells us about the "late bloomer", people for whom everything comes later in life. Tesson, Sylvain. Une très légère oscillation, 2018, Pocket, pp.216, 9782266285285, £8.50 The travelling writer invites the reader to take advantage of the humblest things in life, without expecting anything from the morrow. His reflections cover both current events as well as his thoughts on poetry and spirituality. Thiery, Danielle. Des clous dans le coeur, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.347, 9782290159224, £9.50 The discovery of the corpse of an aging idol of show business adds to a ten-year enigma that torments Inspector Revel: a double crime never elucidated and the disappearance of his wife. Prix Quai des Orfèvres 2013 Tillinac, Denis. Boulevards des Maréchaux, 2018, Table Ronde, pp.128, 9782710387732, £7.99 The author walks down the Boulevards des Maréchaux in Paris. It is a long walk where the pedestrian describes the city, while reciting lessons of history. Tuil, Karine. L’insouciance, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.544, 9782072763380, £8.99 A lieutenant returns from Afghanistan after a passionate affair with a novelist. Valognes, Aurélie. Minute Papillon, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.312, 9782253073178, £9.50 After her father dies, Rose finds herself unemployed and sees her18-year-old son leave home. To survive, she agrees to become the personal assistant of a rich eccentric woman.

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Vanier, Nicolas. Ecole buissonnière, 2018, Pocket, pp.406, 9782266282857, £8.99 A story set in the aftermath of WW1 in a rural France, a boy from the city discovers the country as well as the truth about his birth. Vargas, Fred. Quand sort la recluse, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.480, 9782290156063, £9.50 Three men have recently died from the bites of the brown recluse, a venomous spider. Commissaire Adamsberg suspects a murder. Various. Phobia, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.317, 9782290155035, £6.50 In this collection of novels our phobias are dissected: fear of the dark, death, spiders and even people. Translations into French Alderman, Naomie. La désobéissance, 2018, Points, 9782757872765, £14.99 Translation of "Disobedience" Barry, Sebastian. Des jours sans fin, 2018, Joelle Losfeld Editions, pp.258, 9782072736872, £7.50 Translation of "Days without end". Berlin, Lucia. Manuel à l'usage des femmes de ménage, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.600, 9782253071402, £9.99 Translation of "A Manual for Cleaning Women". Coben, Harlan. Sans défence, 2018, Belfond, pp.408, 9782714460660, £22.50 Translation of "Home". Coelho, Paulo. Hippie, 2018, Flammarion, pp.320, 9782081442429, £19.00 Translated from Brazilian Portuguese. Connelly, Michael. L'impensable, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.480, 9782253044765, £8.99 Translation of "The Crossing". Cornwell, Patricia. Chaos, 2018, Livre de Poche, pp.558, 9782253237198, £10.50 Translated from English. Esposito, Chloé. Mad, 2018, Fleuve Noir, pp.476, 9782265117105, £21.99 Translated from English. Fairfax, John. Reconnu coupable, 2018, Editions du Masque, pp.389, 9782702448748, £9.99 Translation of "Summary Justice". Prix du Masque de l'année étranger. Fellowes, Jessica. Les soeurs Mitford enquêtent: L'assassin du train, 2018, Editions du Masque, pp.493, 9782702448724, £21.99 Translation of "The Mitford Murders". Heaberlin, Julia. Ainsi fleurit le mal, 2018, Pocket, pp.504, 9782266278652, £9.99 Translation of "Black-eyed Susan". Hegland, Jean. Dans la forêt, 2018, Gallmeister, pp.308, 9782351786444, £10.50 Translation of "Into the forest". Hlasko, Marek. Converti à Jaffa, 2018, Mirobole Editions, pp.188, 9782375610978, £17.99 Translated from Polish. Indridason, Arnaldur. Passage des ombres, 2018, Métailié, pp.304, 9791022607759, £20.99 Translated from Icelandic. English title: "The Shadow District". Jónasson, Ragnar. Mörk, 2018, Points, pp.284, 9782757869536, £8.99 Translated from Icelandic. Kinsella, Sophie. Ma vie (pas si) parfaite, 2018, Pocket, pp.487, 9782266286022, £9.99 Translation of "My not so perfect life" Kitano, Takeshi. La vie en gris et rose, 2018, Philippe Picquier, pp.128, 9782809713336, £8.50 Translated from Japanese. Kraus, Chris. I love dick, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.320, 9782290139509, £8.50 Translated from English. Le Carré, John. Héritage des espions, 2018, Seuil, pp.306, 9782021371338, £22.50 Translation of "A Legacy of Spies" Miller, Jax. Candyland, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.639, 9782290154472, £10.50 Translated from English.

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Moyes, Jojo. Après tout, 2018, Milady, 9782811238131, £18.99 Translation of "After you". Murakami, Haruki. Les hommes sans femmes, 2018, 10/18, pp.282, 9782264073020, £9.50 English title: "Men without women". Translation from Japanese. Murata, Sayaka. Konbini, 2018, Denoel, pp.123, 9782207137208, £16.70 Translation from Japanese. English title: "Convenience store woman". Nelscott, Kris. La route de tous les dangers, 2018, Editions de l'Aube, pp.512, 9782815927307, £12.50 Translation of "A dangerous road". Nesbo, Jo. Du sang sur la glace Tome 2: Soleil de nuit, 2018, Folio Policier, pp.255, 9782072797569, £9.95 Translated from Norwegian. —— Macbeth, 2018, Gallimard, pp.624, 9782072786051, £8.99 Translated from Norwegian. Oates, Joyce Carol. Valet de pique, 2018, Points, pp.226, 9782757871058, £8.50 Translation of "Jack of Spades". Pearson, Allison. La nouvelle vie de Kate Reddy, 2018, Cherche-Midi, pp.589, 9782749149615, £22.99 Translation of "How hard can it be?". Perez-Reverte, Arturo. Deux hommes de bien, 2018, Points, pp.400, 9782757871225, £10.50 Translated from Spanish. Perry, Anne. Un traître à Kensington Palace, 2018, 10/18, pp.384, 9782264073075, £9.99 Translation of "Murder on the Serpentine". Roberts, Gregory David. L'ombre de la montagne, 2018, J'ai Lu, pp.1021, 9782290151099, £15.50 Translation of "The mountain shadow". Roy, Arundhati. Le Ministère du Bonheur Suprême, 2018, pp.540, 9782072727320, £22.99 Translation of "Ministry of utmost happiness". Sigurdardottir, Lilja. Reykjavik noir: Le filet (tome 2), 2018, Métailié, pp.320, 9791022607520, £21.50 Translated from Icelandic. —— Reykjavik noir: Piégée (tome 1), 2018, Points, pp.380, 9782757868478, £9.50 Translated from Icelandic. Smith, Pattie. M train, 2018, Folio Gallimard, pp.290, 9782072762635, £8.99 Translated from English. Smith, Zadie. Swing time, 2018, Gallimard, pp.469, 9782072701696, £23.75 Translated from English. St John Mandel, Emily. Station Eleven, 2018, Rivages Poche, pp.476, 9782743642006, £9.99 Translated from English. Tempest, Kate. Ecouter la ville tomber, 2018, Rivages, pp.428, 9782743641993, £22.10 Translation of "The Bricks that Built the Houses"

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New Fiction Banciu, Carmen-Francesca. Lebt wohl, Ihr Genossen und Geliebten!: Tod eines Patrioten, 2018, PalmArtPress, pp.376, hardback, 9783962580032, £25.00 Longlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. Maria-Maria travels back to Romania to look after her sick father. Due to his political involvement in the Communist Party they have become estranged, so she is preparing for some difficult conversations ahead. Banneluc, Jean-Luc. Bretonische Geheimnisse, 2018, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, pp.400, 9783462052015, £19.50 Bestselling crime fiction. The legendary enchanted forest of Brocéliande becomes the setting for a crime investigation when the body of an academic is found. BESTSELLER Barbetta, María Cecilia. Nachtleuchten, 2018, Fischer, pp.528, hardback, 9783103972894, £38.99 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. A group of colourful individuals are struggling to make the best of their lives in times of upheaval in Buenos Aires. Berg, Ellen. Wie heiß ist das denn?: (K)ein Liebes-Roman, 2018, Aufbau, pp.341, 9783746634074, £13.50 Three women from different generations in search of love. Biller, Maxim. Sechs Koffer, 2018, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, pp.208, hardback, 9783462050868, £30.99 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. "Six suitcases" tells the story of a Jewish Russian family escaping from Eastern to Western Europe. Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander. Der Reisende, 2018, Klett-Cota, pp.303, hardback, 9783608981230, £20.00 Germany, November 1938. Jewish businessman Otto Silbermann is trying to remain unnoticed. Taking one train after another to keep on the move, he witnesses the indifference of the masses and the kindness of the few. Capus, Alex. Königskinder, 2018, Hanser, pp.176, hardback, 9783446260092, £23.50 Beautiful love story by one of Germany's most popular authors. Durst Benning, Petra. Die Fotografin: Am Anfang des Weges, 2018, Blanvalet, pp.448, hardback, 9783764506629, £22.00 Historical novel set before the First World War. BESTSELLER Fitzek, Sebastian. Der Insasse: Psychothriller, 2018, Droemer Knaur, pp.384, hardback, 9783426281536, £25.00 The only way for Max Berkhoff’s father to discover the boy’s fate is to become a patient at the high security psychiatric unit where the suspect is being held. Föhr, Andreas. Eifersucht: Ein neuer Fall für Rachel Eisenberg, 2018, Knaur, pp.432, 9783426654460, £16.99 Crime. Rachel Eisenberg is said to have blown up her partner, Eike Sandner, out of jealousy. As remains of the explosives used are found on her, it could be very tricky to prove her innocence… Franz, Andreas & Daniel Holbe. Blutwette, 2018, Knaur, pp.400, 9783426520840, £13.50 Crime. After the death of a respected sportsman the real nature of his life is revealed. Fritz, Susanne. Wie kommt der Krieg ins Kind, 2018, Wallstein, pp.268, hardback, 9783835332447, £21.50 Longlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. The author tells a difficult personal story based on her mother's experiences after the Second World War. Goldammer, Frank. Vergessene Seelen, 2018, dtv, pp.382, 9783423262019, £18.99 Bestselling crime novel set in postwar Dresden.

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Gstrein, Norbert. Die kommenden Jahre, 2018, Hanser, pp.288, hardback, 9783446258143, £24.99 A portrait of a summer full of adventures for a "middle aged" couple, the flight of time, changing and becoming older. The book will show the reader that it's not just about the years to come, it's about every moment of life. Haratischwili, Nino. Die Katze und der General, 2018, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, pp.750, hardback, 9783627002541, £45.00 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. Alexander Orlow, nicknamed General, starts his new life in Berlin. BESTSELLER Hauser, Franziska. Die Gewitterschwimmerin, 2018, Eichborn, pp.432, hardback, 9783847906445, £23.00 Longlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. The story of Tamara Hirsch, a spirited girl whose wings are clipped by growing up in the GDR. Hegemann, Helene. Bungalow, 2018, Hanser Berlin, pp.288, hardback, 9783446253179, £25.99 In "Bungalow" Helene Hegemann clearly and radically tells us about survival in an increasingly apocalyptic world and the vital power of free will. Heldt, Dora. Drei Frauen am See, 2018, dtv, pp.576, 9783423262064, £18.50 Three childhood friends meet after years of sporadic contact united by grief after the unexpected death of a mutual friend, Marie. Herrndorf, Wolfgang. Stimmen, 2018, Rowohlt, pp.144, hardback, 9783737100571, £11.70 Herrndorf wanted all of his unpublished work to be destroyed after his death. This book is therefore made up of texts which were released in one form or another whilst he was still alive, be that at readings or on the internet, but which will be unfamiliar to most of his readers. Herzog, Katharina. Zwischen dir und mir das Meer, 2018, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, pp.352, 9783499274206, £14.50 If life gives you lemons, make limoncello out of it!Lena leads a retired life on Amrum. She collects sea glass on the beach, which she uses to make jewellery. With that, she wants to recapture what she once took from the sea. Hülsmann, Petra. Wenn's einfach wär, würd's jeder machen, 2018, Bastei Lübbe, pp.575, 9783404176908, £12.50 Annika didn't seen it coming, so when she gets transferred from her perfect school in Hamburg's quiet suburb to a school infamous for being "difficult", she is in real distress. Jonuleit, Anja. Das Nachtfräuleinspiel, 2018, dtv, pp.496, 9783423261999, £17.50 One fatal night of supposed fun turns the life of a teenage Annemaria into a nightmare. Kaminer, Wladimir. Die Kreuzfahrer, 2018, Wunderraum, pp.224, hardback, 9783336547982, £22.99 Humorous account from a cruising ship. Kampmann, Anja. Wie hoch die Wasser steigen, 2018, Hanser, pp.352, hardback, 9783446258150, £24.00 One stormy night aboard a drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and friend, Mátyás, has gone missing. BESTSELLER Kasten, Mona. Save me, 2018, LYX, pp.416, 9783736305564, £14.99 James and Ruby come from different worlds and yet they are meant to be together. Klüssendorf, Angelika. Jahre später, 2018, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, pp.160, hardback, 9783462047769, £20.00 Angelika Klüssendorf tells how a love between two radical loners emerges, both trying by their own means to find social acceptance and to find themselves. BESTSELLER Koelle, Patricia. Wo die Dünen schimmern, 2018, Fischer, pp.528, 9783596297634, £12.50 Jesieanna lives in California and works for her grandmother's company. When she is to spend some time back in Germany, she feels anything but excitement.

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Krechel, Ursula. Geisterbahn, 2018, Jung und Jung, pp.650, hardback, 9783990272190, £35.00 The story of a German family, the Dorns. As gypsies they are persecuted under the Nazis and those who survive this period struggle to live with the ghosts of their past. Loschütz, Gert. Ein schönes Paar, 2018, Schöffling, pp.240, hardback, 9783895611568, £24.99 When cleaning up his parents' home, the photographer Philipp encounters an object that has played a crucial role in the history of his parents. BESTSELLER Lüscher, Jonas. Kraft, 2018, btb, pp.240, 9783442716616, £15.50 An invitation to a competition in Sillicon Valley creates an opportunity for Richard Kraft to change his life completely. Mahlke, Inger-Maria. Archipel, 2018, Rowohlt, Reinbek, pp.432, hardback, 9783498042240, £32.50 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. A great European novel from the periphery of the continent: the island of eternal spring, Tenerife. Malinke, Lo. Vier Frauen und ein Sommer, 2018, Fischer, pp.432, 9783596297795, £13.50 Will Melli, Yüzil, Jenny and Britta dare to make a change in their lives before they turn forty? Molinari, Gianna. Hier ist noch alles möglich, 2018, Aufbau-Verlag, pp.192, hardback, 9783351037390, £20.50 A young woman is hired as a night watchperson in a packaging factory. A wolf is seen in the area and the search for the wolf becomes more of a quest to find herself. Muschg, Adolf. Heimkehr nach Fukushima, 2018, Beck, pp.244, hardback, 9783406727023, £24.50 Adolf Muschg has succeeded in creating an exceptional work of the late adolescents, who is able to revolve around anthropological basic constants and at the same time express Japanese mentality. BESTSELLER Neuhaus, Nele. Muttertag, 2018, Ullstein, pp.480, hardback, 9783550081033, £24.50 Following a macabre discovery in an abandoned factory Pia and her team launch an investigation. Nickel, Eckhart. Hysteria, 2018, Piper, pp.240, hardback, 9783492059244, £24.50 "Hysteria" tells the story of Bergheim, who discovered strangely unnatural raspberries at an organic market. Oberhollenzer, Josef. Sültzrather, 2018, Folio, Wien, pp.160, hardback, 9783852567419, £22.50 A great novel about the question of what it means to remember after the disappearance. With high craftsmanship Oberhollenzer fits his protagonist a memory on the body. Pollatschek, Nele. Das Unglück anderer Leute, 2018, Goldmann, pp.224, 9783442486694, £13.99 Thene, a twenty-something, appears to be leading the life of her dreams; studying at Oxford and occasionally going back to Germany for the holidays. Yet her family is far from perfect, especially her self- absorbed mother Astrid… Poznanski, Ursula. Thalamus, 2018, Loewe, pp.448, 9783785586143, £18.50 After Timo's road accident strange things start to happen. Raabe, Melanie. Der Schatten, 2018, btb, pp.416, 9783442757527, £18.99 Thriller. Nora is warned by a stranger that she will kill a man called Arthur Grimm…She does not take it seriously until one day she meets a certain Arthur Grimm… Rockel, Susanne. Der Vogelgott, 2018, Jung und Jung, pp.272, 9783990272145, £25.00 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis. Strange cults and myths, archaic horrors and nightmares: Irresistible Susanne Röckel leads us into uncanny terrain. Rothmann, Ralf. Der Gott jenes Sommers, 2018, Suhrkmap, pp.254, hardback, 9783518427934, £22.99 The story begins when twelve-year-old Luisa and her mother are forced to leave Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein at the end of the Second World War. BESTSELLER Schirach, Ferdinand von. Strafe: Stories, 2018, Luchterhand, pp.192, 9783630875385, £18.99 The author skilfully deals with some of the important ethical questions of truth, guilt and justice. Schweikert, Ulrike. Die Charité: Hoffnung und Schicksal, 2018, Rowohlt, pp.496, 9783499274510, £18.50 Berlin, 1831. Cholera arrives in Germany and at the Charité Hospital Professor Dieffenbach and his colleagues begin a fight against time.

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Seethaler, Robert. Das Feld, 2018, Hanser, pp.240, hardback, 9783446260382, £24.99 Bestseller. A portrait of a small town seen through the eyes of some of its inhabitants talking to the reader from beyond the grave. Setz, Clemens. Bot: Gespräch ohne Autor, 2018, Suhrkamp, pp.166, hardback, 9783518427866, £20.00 bizzare, sometimes confusing, and definitely fascinating journey through the mind and world of Clemens Setz. Speck, Daniel. Piccola Sicilia, 2018, Fischer, pp.624, 9783596701629, £19.99 Archaeologist Nina is looking for her lost grandfather Moritz and meets an unknown relative from Haifa. Together, they uncover a fascinating family secret. Stamm, Peter. Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt, 2018, Fischer, pp.160, hardback, 9783103972597, £22.50 In the book the author asks existential questions about life, our destiny and the importance of relationships. Taha, Karosh. Beschreibung einer Krabbenwanderung, 2018, DuMont, pp.250, hardback, 9783832198800, £22.00 Twenty-two year old Sanaa who emigrated with her family from Iraq tries her best re-shape her life in a new country — Germany. Thome, Stephan. Gott der Barbaren, 2018, Suhrkamp, pp.719, hardback, 9783518428252, £37.50 Shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2018. In his thrilling new book, Thome tells a story of our crisis- ridden present. Led by a Christian convert who considers himself God's second son, rebels in China are building a Theocracy, which anticipates the terrorist movements of our time. BESTSELLER Vermes, Timur. Die Hungrigen und die Satten, 2018, Eichborn, pp.512, hardback, 9783847906605, £25.00 In Vermes' latest satire, the EU has closed its borders to refugees and millions are living in camps across North Africa. Following the arrival of a German film crew one group breaks out of a camp and heads on foot towards Germany. All 150,000 of them. Every second of their march is filmed and followed by millions of TV viewers. Viragh, Christina. Eine dieser Nächte, 2018, Dörlemann, pp.500, hardback, 9783038200567, £31.50 The story of a twelve-hour flight from Bangkok to Zurich. Bill, who is in the seat next to Emma, eloquently conjures up places, people and strange beings. Volks, Sybil. Die Glücksreisenden, 2018, dtv, pp.336, 9783423262033, £19.50 A celestial event sets off a journey for a group of people- could the comet bring luck and happiness to their lives? Reprints Ahrens, Renate. Alles, was folgte, 2018, Droemer, pp.336, 9783426305775, £13.50 The novel tells the touching story of 44-year-old Katharina Elbracht from Hamburg, whose life is shaken by the fall of the Berlin Wall: she receives a bundle of letters from East Berlin, indicating that the woman she has called her "mother" all her life, was in truth her aunt. Brandt, Matthias. Raumpatrouille: Geschichten, 2018, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, pp.172, 9783462051575, £13.99 An intimate, dreamlike portrait of a child growing up as the son of a powerful politician. Cors, Benjamin. Strandgut: Ein Normandie-Krimi, 2018, dtv, pp.432, 9783423217163, £11.99 At the Cannes Film Festival, Nicolas Guerlain, a young, aspiring bodyguard, makes an unforgivable mistake - his career is ruined, he is being transferred to his old home, the idyllic seaside resort of Deauville in Normandy. However the tranquillity he finds there is soon over when a severed hand is washed up onto the beach. Erpenbeck, Jenny. Heimsuchung, 2018, Penguin, pp.192, 9783328102519, £13.50 English title: "Visitation". By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows darker still over the course of the century. www.grantandcutler.com 21 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

Geiger, Arno. Es geht uns gut, 2018, dtv, pp.480, 9783423146500, £13.99 Bestseller. When Philipp inherits his grandparents' house in the suburbs of Vienna suddenly all the family secrets and stories come back to life again. Hein, Christoph. Trutz, 2018, Suhrkamp, pp.476, 9783518468647, £13.50 Two families, two men. One a writer who is forced to flee Nazi Germany, another a Russian scientist who is deported from the Soviet Union. Years later, it is their sons who will make the same mistakes as their fathers. Heller, André. Das Buch vom Süden, 2018, dtv, pp.336, 9783423146340, £14.50 The main protagonist, Julian, has been longing for life in the South all his life. Will moving there bring all the happiness he imagines? Kracht, Christian. Die Toten, 2018, Fischer, pp.224, 9783596197354, £13.50 "The dead" is set in the film industry at the end of the Weimar era, and tells the story of a (fictional) Swiss director, Emil Nägeli, and a Japanese government official who try to create a collaboration between German and Japanese cinema. Leky, Mariana. Erste Hilfe, 2018, DuMont Buchverlag, pp.192, 9783832164584, £13.50 The narrator works part-time in a pet shop. She lives with Sylvester, a heartthrob who is busy fighting off his admirers. One night Matilda, a woman who fears she is losing her mind, knocks on their door seeking shelter with her large dog. —— Die Herrenausstatterin, 2018, DuMont Buchverlag, pp.208, 9783832161651, £13.50 An adventurous love triangle takes its course, between a woman who has fallen from everyday life, a very self-confident lover and a life-like dead. Mariana Leky's novel takes us to a world that is weirder and sadder than ours - and yet ghostly human. Link, Charlotte. Sturmzeit - Wilde Lupinen: Die Sturmzeittrilogie, 2, 2018, Blanvalet, pp.704, 9783734106019, £14.50 The second volume of this trilogy is set in Germany in 1938. Belle and Felicia must finally make a decision that will change their lives forever… Müller, Titus. Der Tag X, 2018, Heyne, pp.400, 9783453439306, £13.50 Gripping story set against the backdrop of the People's Uprising in East Germany in 1953. Noll, Ingrid. Halali, 2018, Diogenes, pp.320, 9783257244472, £14.50 A mix of crime caper and spy novel set in 1950s Bonn. Ortheil, Hanns-Josef. Was ich liebe - und was nicht, 2018, btb, pp.368, 9783442716883, £14.50 A strangely gripping read in which the author tells the reader what he likes, and what he doesn’t like! Strunk, Heinz. Jürgen, 2018, Rororo, pp.253, 9783499290411, £14.99 Jürgen is not particularly successful with women. Could a trip to Poland with a company called Eurolove bring a positive change? Tsokos, Michael. Zersetzt, 2018, Droemer Knaur, pp.432, 9783426520055, £14.50 True crime thriller. Translations into German Angelou, Maya. Ich weiß, warum der gefangene Vogel singt, 2018, Suhrkamp, pp.322, 9783518468975, £14.50 Translation of "I know why the caged bird sings". Abe, Kobo. Frau in den Dünen, 2018, Unionsverlag, pp.224, 9783293208094, £13.99 English title: "Woman in the dunes". Translation from Japanese. Ahern, Cecilia. Frauen, die ihre Stimme erheben. Roar., 2018, Fischer Krüger, pp.352, hardback, 9783810530615, £20.00 Translation of "Roar". Allende, Isabel. Ein unvergänglicher Sommer, 2018, Suhrkamp, pp.350, hardback, 9783518428306, £26.00 English title; "In the midst of winter". Translation from Spanish. Barnes, Julian. Der Lärm der Zeit, 2018, btb, pp.256, 9783442716524, £12.50 Translation of "The noise of time".

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Barry, Sebastian. Tage ohne Ende, 2018, Steidl Gerhard Verlag, pp.256, hardback, 9783958295186, £24.99 Translation of "Days without end". Coben, Harlan. In deinem Namen, 2018, Goldmann, pp.384, hardback, 9783442205448, £16.99 Translation of "Don't let go". Coelho, Paulo. Hippie, 2018, Diogenes, pp.320, hardback, 9783257070491, £24.99 Translation from Portuguese. De Vigan, Delphine. Tage ohne Hunger, 2018, DuMont, pp.176, 9783832164690, £13.00 Here we have the story of an anorexic girl still in her teens, virtually a skeleton who is hospitalised to cure her from an illness she is often very reluctant to be cured of, seeing her battle as not so much against an illness as a battle against hunger itself, anorexia being the winner.Translation from French: "Jour sans faim". Despentes, Virginie. Das Leben des Vernon Subutex 1, 2018, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, pp.400, 9783462052077, £14.50 English title: "Vernon Subutex 1". Translation from French. Faber, Michel. Das Buch der seltsamen neuen Dinge, 2018, Kein & Aber, pp.688, hardback, 9783036957791, £24.99 Translation of "The book of strange new things". Harris, Robert. München: Das Abkommen, 2018, Heyne, pp.432, 9783453471689, £12.99 Translation of "Munich". Highsmith, Patricia. Katzengeschichten, 2018, Diogenes, pp.128, hardback, 9783257261400, £13.50 Illustrated edition of "On cats and lifestyle". Honeyman, Gail. Ich, Eleanor Oliphant, 2018, Lübbe, pp.526, 9783404176793, £13.50 Translation of "Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine". Ishiguro, Kazuo. Was vom Tage übrig blieb, 2018, Karl Blessing Verlag, pp.288, hardback, 9783896676405, £24.00 Translation of "The remains of the day". Jonasson, Jonas. Der Hundertjährige, der zurückkam, um die Welt zu retten, 2018, Bertelsmann, pp.350, hardback, 9783570103555, £22.00 English title: "The accidental further adventures of the hundred-year-old man". Translation from Swedish. Kidd, Jess. Der Freund der Toten, 2018, DuMont, pp.382, 9783832164652, £12.99 Translation of "Himself". Kinsella, Sophie. Muss es denn gleich für immer sein?, 2018, Goldmann, pp.477, 9783442487769, £11.99 Translation of "Surprise me". Levy, Marc. Kinder der Hoffnung, 2018, Blanvalet, pp.384, 9783734105494, £12.99 English title: "The children of freedom". Translation from French. Mankell, Henning. Der Sprengmeister, 2018, Zsolnay-Verlag, pp.192, hardback, 9783552059016, £22.99 Translation of Mankell's debut novel. Moshfegh, Ottessa. Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung, 2018, Liebeskind, pp.320, hardback, 9783954380923, £22.00 Translation of "My year of rest and relaxation". Murakami, Haruki. Die Ermordung des Commendatore, 2018, DuMont, pp.496, Band 2, 9783832198923, £25.00 English title: "Killing Commendatore". Translation from Japanese. Murata, Sayaka. Die Ladenhüterin, 2018, Aufbau, pp.145, hardback, 9783351037031, £20.50 English title: "Convenience store woman". Translation from Japanese. Nesbo, Jo. Durst, 2018, Ullstein, pp.624, 9783548290713, £13.50 English title: "Thirst". Translation from Norwegian. Ng, Celeste. Kleine Feuer überall, 2018, dtv, pp.384, hardback, 9783423281560, £24.99 Translation of "Little fires everywhere".

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Ondaatje, Michael. Kriegslicht, 2018, Hanser, pp.320, hardback, 9783446259997, £26.00 Translation of "Warlight". Parks, Tim. In Extremis, 2018, Kunstmann Antje, pp.448, hardback, 9783956142529, £25.50 Translation from English. Ruiz Zafon, Carlos. Das Labyrinth der Lichter, 2018, Fischer, pp.944, 9783596032518, £13.50 English title: "The labyrinth of the spirits". Translation from Spanish. Saunders, George. Lincoln im Bardo, 2018, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, pp.448, hardback, 9783630875521, £27.00 Translation of "Lincoln in the Bardo". 2018 Booker Prize winner. Sparks, Nicholas. Seit du bei mir bist, 2018, Heyne, pp.592, 9783453422421, £12.50 Translation of "Two by two". Tawada, Yoko. Sendbo(o)te, 2018, Konkursbuch, pp.300, 9783887696887, £13.50 English title: "The last children of Tokyo". Translation from Japanese. Tyler, Anne. Launen der Zeit, 2018, Kein + Aber, pp.304, hardback, 9783036957753, £24.99 Translation of "Clock dance". Vuillard, Éric. Die Tagesordnung, 2018, Matthes & Seitz, pp.118, hardback, 9783957575760, £20.00 Prix Goncourt 2017. English title: "The order of the day". Translation from French. Ward, Jesmyn. Singt, ihr Lebenden und ihr Toten, singt, 2018, Kunstmann, pp.304, hardback, 9783956142246, £22.00 Translation of "Sing, Unburied, Sing". Zink, Nell. Nikotin, 2018, Rowohlt, pp.400, hardback, 9783498076702, £23.00 Translation of "Nicotine".

Italian

New Fiction Affinati, Eraldo. Tutti i nomi del mondo, 2018, Mondadori, pp.280, hardback, 9788804685654, £18.65 The characters sign up with a language school for immigrants, where the river of painful humanity continues to flow tumultuously. Everyone has a tale to tell. Amerighi, Marco. Le nostre ore contate, 2018, Mondadori, pp.267, 9788804687542, £17.65 Amerighi gives us a book with a rare descriptive force, capable of staging the dreams and torments of adolescence. A novel that investigates the strength of friendship, the drama of betrayal and that transition to adulthood that always hurts us. Argento, Dario. Horror: Storie di sangue, spiriti e segreti, 2018, Mondadori, pp.160, 9788804685920, £17.99 Dario Argento returns with this collection of stories with tales of demons, witches and the supernatural mixed with reality. Balzano, Marco. Resto qui, 2018, Einaudi, pp.180, hardback, 9788806237417, £19.50 War comes knocking on the door of Trina’s house. She follows her husband into the mountains, where they both learn to face death. BESTSELLER Bianchini, Luca. So che un giorno tornerai, 2018, Mondadori, pp.264, 9788804706151, £19.99 Emma's father disappears from her life when she is still a baby, leaving her and her mother in difficulties. Until one day she will decide to find her father.

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Bosonetto, Marco. Il bacio della Dea Montagna, 2018, piemme, pp.307, 9788856664331, £20.50 As every year, Luca Rollin goes on a skiing trip with his family for his holidays. He is a popular writer and this year he realises that something has changed in how people see him: fame has a price. Brizzi, Enrico. Tu che sei di me la miglior parte, 2018, Mondadori, pp.543, hardback, 9788804678861, £21.50 Bologna in the 80s: Tommy Bandiera, fatherless, grows up with his mother Alice and her family. Cotti, Andrea. Il cinese, 2018, Rizzoli, pp.527, 9788817101677, £18.99 Luca Wu is the first Italian vice-chancellor of Chinese origins. He will end up clashing with the power of the infamous Triads and with the project of an obscure murderous mind. D'Amicis, Carlo. Il gioco, 2018, Mondadori, pp.526, hardback, 9788804687351, £21.50 Mister Wolf, the First Lady and the President form the most classic and scabrous triangle of eroticism. They play roles but the more the body is their stage dress, the more their soul is undressed. Della Scala, Elisa. Aria di vetro, 2018, Ensemble, pp.132, 9788868812539, £12.50 Twelve stories that revolve around the fugacity of certain moments, the role of time and memories. The author asks about the actual existence of reality and about the possibilities that open up when one finds oneself. Donati, Massimo. Giochi cattivi, 2018, Feltrinelli, pp.345, 9788807032912, £23.50 Roberto and Mario are at that age when you are no longer children but you are not yet men. In the summer of 1981 they play adults in Madonna della Neve, a small Alpine village in the province of Trento. D'Urbano, Valentina. Isola di neve, 2018, Longanesi, pp. 320, hardback, 9788830448780, £21.99 Manuel feels like everything is over after a terrible mistake. The only place to welcome him is November, the island where his grandparents lived. Some strange meeting are going to change his mind. Farinaccio, Valentina. Le poche cose certe, 2018, Mondadori, pp.150, hardback, 9788804687368, £18.99 We must run the risk of being happy, even if everything could sink at any moment. Because nothing is certain, in life. Only one thing: that between an island and the other there is always the sea. BESTSELLER Fazioli, Andrea. Gli svizzeri muoiono felici, 2018, Guanda, pp.282, 9788823514980, £19.99 Private investigator Elia Contini has to deal with a very delicate case. Eugenio Torres, a well-known doctor, disappears. After his wife's death, his family decides to investigate: the doctor could be still alive somewhere in the Sahara desert. Franzoso, Marco. L'innocente, 2018, Mondadori, pp.154, hardback, 9788804702719, £18.99 A novel about the most painful themes of today's society, told from the point of view of a child. A journey that reveals to the reader the real meaning of words, with the same astonishment of a child. Gentile, Andrea. I vivi e I morti, 2018, Minimum Fax, pp.549, 9788875219031, £19.99 A novel of great wisdom and insight. Giordano, Paolo. Divorare il cielo, 2018, Einaudi, pp.430, hardback, 9788806222277, £23.50 During long summer days in Speziale, Teresa meets the boys from the farm and falls in love with Bern. Introna, Marcello. Castigo di Dio, 2018, Mondadori, pp.296, hardback, 9788804685777, £21.99 Deep and exciting, Castigo di Dio confirms Marcello Introna's great talent, his immediacy and authenticity in describing Italian life and history. Noir and mystery meet mafia. Lucarelli, Carlo. Peccato mortale: Un'indagine del commissario De Luca, 2018, Einaudi, pp. 248, 9788806237530, £19.50 Set in Italy in the mid 1940s. De Luca wakes up and finds that Fascism has "magically" disappeared. Then the German army invades the Country. BESTSELLER Maggiani, Maurizio. L'amore, 2018, Feltrinelli, pp.197, 9788807033063, £19.50 Maurizio Maggiani succeeds in describing what love is from the point of view of a man who has finally found the love of his life — the gestures, the words, and the habits. Mainardi, Ilaria. L'alba è d'argento, 2018, youcanprint, pp.266, 9788827844854, £15.99 The London detective George Bennett usually drowns his sorrow in a couple of glasses of whiskey. One day, during the evening of October 24th, 1966, exactly ten years after an event that changed his life, a sinister detail draws his attention. www.grantandcutler.com 25 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

Manzini, Antonio. L'anello mancante: Cinque indagini di Rocco Schiavone, 2018, Sellerio, pp.235, 9788838938085, £16.99 A collection of short stories starring the famous inspector Rocco Schiavone. Mencarelli, Daniele. La casa degli sguardi, 2018, Mondadori, pp.225, hardback, 9788804685760, £18.65 Mencarelli graciously offers us the courageous account of the refuge sought by many in alcohol. Molesini, Andrea. La solitudine dell'assassino, 2018, Rizzoli, pp.367, 9788817098601, £15.99 Many years ago, Carlo Malaguti killed. Now, at the age of 80, he is free again. Free to redeem himself or kill once more? BESTSELLER Moresco, Antonio. L'adorazione e la lotta, 2018, Mondadori, pp.424, hardback, 9788804685623, £23.50 A very personal journey animated by an unsettling vision of literature and the world, which crosses the works of writers, poets, philosophers, saints and political leaders. Palmieri, Daniele. Diario di un cinico gatto, 2018, Magazzini Salani, pp.414, 9788893674997, £16.99 The adventures of a cynical cat which lives with two humans. It will give the reader its point of view on the world. Robecchi, Alessandro. Follia maggiore, 2018, Sellerio Editore Palermo, pp.390, 9788838937446, £16.99 A woman is found dead on the street outside her house. Maybe she had a fight with someone, maybe she slipped and hit her head. Or maybe not. Roversi, Paolo. Cartoline dalla fine del mondo: La nuova indagine di Enrico Radeschi, 2018, Marsilio, pp.266, 9788831728508, £22.50 After eight years spent as a fugitive around the world, Radeschi is recalled to Milan to follow the complicated case of a man killed underneath a painting in the museum of modern art. Scotti, Carmela. Chiedi al cielo, 2018, Garzanti, pp.317, hardback, 9788811676485, £19.00 After her son disappears, Anna learns what the real grief is. When she decides to look for her son, she meets Giona, a solitary and mysterious man. Sicignano, Marzia. Io, te e il mare, 2018, Mondadori, pp.160, 9788804687290, £16.99 A collection of verses and prose through which the young writer Marzia Sicignano describes what love feels like for the first time: fragility, strong feelings and the fear of not being enough. Simi, Gianpaolo. Come una famiglia, 2018, Sellerio Editore Palerlo, pp.425, 9788838938030, £16.99 A dramatic noir, a history of individuals who recognize each other and seek complicity and protection in belonging, in group loyalty, in friendship, in the tenacious core of the family. Simoni, Marcello. Il patto dell'abate nero: Secretum Saga, 2018, Newton Compton, pp.328, hardback, 9788822718280, £9.99 March 13, 1460, Alghero. A Jewish merchant secretly meets the agent of a Florentine businessman, Messer Teofilo Capponi. He wants to sell him a very precious piece of information… Torregrossa, Giuseppina. Il basilico di Palazzo Galletti, 2018, Mondadori, pp.252, hardback, 9788804687825, £20.00 The author has written a flickering and sensual story, describing unexpressed desires and impasses. A rich, sumptuous and sensual story, with strong female characters in the foreground that carry the reader among Sicily's perfumes. Various. Sbirre, 2018, Rizzoli, pp.220, 9788817101592, £20.00 Three policewomen struggling with their weaknesses, with a heavy past inside their soul. Zucca, Giulia. Il cielo dopo di noi, 2018, Nord, pp.465, hardback, 9788842925989, £19.99 The story of a boy without a father, forced to grow up too fast, and a woman forced to make a terrible decision, which will mark her life forever.

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Translations into Italian Batuman, Elif. L'idiota, 2018, Einaudi, pp.415, hardback, 9788806217570, £22.99 Translation of "The idiot". Dicker, Joël. La scomparsa di Stephanie Mailer, 2018, La nava di Teseo, pp.640, 9788893445092, £24.99 Translation of 'The disappearance of Stephanie Mailer'. Galbraith, Robert. Il baco da seta, 15/07/2017, Tea, pp.553, 9788850246410, £6.99 Translation of 'Silkworm'. —— La via del male: Un'indagine di Cormoran Strike, 2018, Superpocket, pp.603, 9788869800399, £8.99 Translatin of 'Career of evil'. Haig, Matt. Come fermare il tempo, 2018, E/o, pp.360, 9788833570006, £18.99 Translation of "How to stop time". Hawkins, Paula. Dentro l'acqua, 2018, Pickwick, pp.370, hardback, 9788868368890, £20.50 Translation of "Into the water" Hillday, Lisa. Asimmetria, 2018, Feltrinelli, pp.285, 9788807033070, £18.99 Translation of "Asimmetry". Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant sta benissimo, 2018, Garzanti, pp.330, hardback, 9788811672364, £18.99 Translation of "Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine" King, Stephen. Low men in yellow coats, 2018, Sperling & Kupfer, pp.298, 9788868364632, £12.99 Translation of "Low men in yellow coats". Lackberg, Camilla. Il bambino segreto, 2018, Feltrinelli, pp.528, 9788831741132, £13.99 Translation of 'The hidden child'. Lunde, Maja. La storia delle api, 2018, Marsilio, pp.426, 9788831741125, £13.99 English title: "The history of bees". Translation from Norwegian. Murata, Sayaka. La ragazza del convenience store, 2018, Edizioni E/O, pp.168, 9788833570020, £16.50 Translation of 'Convenience store woman'. Rooney, Sally. Parlarne tra amici, 2018, Supercoralli, pp.293, 9788806232368, £21.99 Translation of "Conversations with friends".

Polish

New Fiction Bednarek, Justyna & Jagna Kaczanowska. Ogród Zuzanny, 2018, W.A.B., pp.400, 9788328050358, £16.99 Chic lit. Zuzanna and Adam fell in love with each other at university but then their lives went separately. Could a meeting years later rekindle the old flame? Bonda, Katarzyna. Czerwony pająk, 2018, Muza SA, pp.816, 9788328709607, £20.99 Crime. Sasza Załuska's daughter is kidnapped and soon the woman herself disappears without a trace. Chmielarz, Wojciech. Podpalacz, 2018, Marginesy, pp.367, 9788365780904, £15.99 Crime. A businessman dies in a fire and his wife is critically injured. At first, police think it is only a tragic accident, but evidence points to arson. www.grantandcutler.com 27 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

—— Żmijowisko, 2018, Marginesy, pp.480, 9788365973375, £13.99 Thriller. Planned as a great get-together for a group of university friends, a holiday very quickly turns into a nightmare. Ćwirlej, Ryszard. Już nikogo nie słychać, 2018, Czwarta Strona, pp.530, 9788379768202, £17.50 Historical crime set after the restoration of Poland's sovereignty. —— Masz to jak w banku, 2018, Muza SA, pp.480, 9788328709713, £13.99 Crime story set in Poland during the fall of communism in the late eighties. Czornyj, Max. Ofiara, 2018, Filia, pp.414, 9788380754119, £13.50 Crime. After a series of kidnappings in Lublin, it turns out that a local policeman might also be on the perpetrator's radar. Czubaj, Mariusz. Dziewczynka z zapalniczką, 2018, W.A.B., pp.320, 9788328026735, £14.50 Crime. An ex-cop is found dead with his body hidden in the boot of a car. The investigation which follows proves much more complicated that it at first appears. —— Kołysanka dla mordercy, 2018, W.A.B., pp.288, 9788328056305, £16.50 Crime. After another gruesome murder of a homeless person in Warsaw, a criminal profiler Rudolf Heinz is called into rescue. Fiedorczuk, Natalia. Ulga, 2018, Wielka Litera, pp.272, hardback, 9788380322509, £14.50 Realistic portrait of a generation struggling to find happiness in their everyday lives full of routine, mortgages and stressful corporate jobs. BESTSELLER Figura, Radosław. Magda M.: Ciąg dalszy nastąpił, 2018, Znak, pp.512, 9788324047086, £16.50 Magda and Piotr lead a very happy and yet predictable life together until one day everything they were so sure of changes. Gretkowska, Manuela. Poetka i książę, 2018, Znak, pp.304, hardback, 9788324048168, £15.50 Fabularized history of love between two prominent figures of Polish culture: Agnieszka Osiecka and Jerzy Giedroyc. BESTSELLER Grochola, Katarzyna. Pocieszki, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, hardback, 9788308065624, £15.99 A collection of 52 uplifting short stories based on authentic events. Jędrusiak, Szymon. Zawisza Czarny: Wielka wojna, 2018, Bukowy las, pp.392, 9788380741034, £16.99 Historical fiction set in fifteenth Century Poland. Kordel, Magdalena. Serce w skowronkach, 2018, Znak, pp.400, 9788324054084, £15.50 Chic lit. Heart warming story that will remind you that it is never too late for a change in life. Kozera, Grzegorz. Noc w Berlinie, 2018, Dobra Literatura, pp.414, 9788365897268, £12.99 Story of Joachim Werner, an artist of Jewish origin during the Nazi rule. Kubryńska, Sylwia. Mama, 2018, Proszynski Media, pp.336, hardback, 9788381232500, £13.50 Humorous account of pregnancy. Majcher, Magdalena. Wszystkie pory uczuć: Lato, 2018, Pascal, pp.368, 9788381032315, £12.50 Emotional story about motherhood. BESTSELLER Masłowska, Dorota. Inni ludzie, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp.192, hardback, 9788308065105, £16.50 Warsaw seen from an ironic vantage point. Matulewicz, Marta. Singielka w Londynie, 2018, Lira, pp.320, 9788365838421, £13.99 Life in London is not always easy for newcomers but Ewa does all she can to enjoy the very moment of it. Miłoszewski, Wojciech. Farba, 2018, W.A.B., pp.640, 9788328053618, £16.99 Thriller set in Poland under Russian occupation. Miszczuk, Katarzyna Berenika. Przesilenie: Kwiat paproci, 2018, W.A.B., pp.352, 9788328053663, £12.99 Bestseller. Final instalment in a romantic trilogy.

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BESTSELLER Mróz, Remigiusz. Hashtag, 2018, Czwarta Strona, 9788379769896, £14.99 A message about a parcel to be collected surprises Tesa - she always gets her goods delivered straight to her apartment and avoids leaving home. Curiosity leads her to go and collect the package, which turns out to be a huge mistake. A captivating thriller. —— Zerwa, 2018, Filia, 9788380754584, £15.50 Crime. Wiktor Forst wakes up in a hospital in Zakopane. He has no memories of the most recent events from his life. Nosowska, Katarzyna. A ja żem jej powiedziała, 2018, Wielka Litera, pp.208, 9788380322592, £13.99 Debut novel by one of Poland’s best known artists. Nurowska, Maria. Miłośnica, 2018, Proszynski Media, pp.368, hardback, 9788381232012, £14.50 Novel set around the life of Polish-British secret agent Krystyna Skarbek. Obuch, Marta. Wiedźma duszona w winie, 2018, Filia, pp.500, 9788380754799, £13.99 Romance. Bozena, a settled bank manager, unexpectedly inherits a property in a provincial town which leads to some dramatic changes in her life. Pasierski, Jedrzej. Dom bez klamek, 2018, Czarne, pp.344, 9788380496873, £14.50 Crime. Nina investigates a brutal murder in a psychiatric hospital. Pilch, Jerzy. Żywego ducha, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp.240, hardback, 9788308065297, £14.50 What would it be like to be the last person alive on the Earth? Puzyńska, Katarzyna. Nora, 2018, Proszynski Media, pp.816, 9788381232265, £17.50 Crime. One of the patients of a psychiatric hospital is found dead… Rogala, Małgorzata. Grzech zaniechania, 2018, Czwarta Strona, pp.344, 9788379768226, £13.50 Crime. When Agata's ex-partner is murdered, she is number one on the list of suspects. —— Kopia doskonała, 2018, Czwarta Strona, pp.352, 9788379769247, £15.50 Dominika travels to Lyon where she works on copying a famous painting. Mysteriously after her work is over the copy vanishes and the artist herself gets kidnapped. BESTSELLER Rudnicka, Olga. Zbyt piękne, 2018, Proszynski Media, pp.376, 9788381231220, £13.99 When Zuzanna and Timothy both realised that they were being tricked by the same person, they joined forces in order to discover and punish the malefactor. BESTSELLER Stasiuk, Andrzej. Kroniki beskidzkie i światowe, 2018, Czarne, pp.272, hardback, 9788380496705, £14.50 A collection of short pieces and articles previously published in Tygodnik Powszechny, one of Poland’s leading newspapers. Szczerek, Ziemowit. Siwy dym: albo pięć cywilizowanych plemion, 2018, Czarne, pp.336, hardback, 9788380496743, £16.50 Bestseller. Dystopian novel set in the twenty-first century. Szpila, Agnieszka. Bardo, 2018, W.A.B., pp.416, 9788328036017, £14.99 Ironical take on modern day Poland and the country's obsessions. Szymiczkowa, Maryla. Seans w Domu Egipskim, 2018, Znak, pp.304, 9788324047857, £15.00 Historical crime set at the end of the nineteenth century. BESTSELLER Tokarczuk, Olga. Opowiadania bizarne, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp.148, hardback, 9788308064986, £15.99 Collection of short stories by a renowned Polish writer. Varga, Krzysztof. Sonnenberg, 2018, Czarne, pp.480, hardback, 9788380496552, £14.50 A multilayered, captivating psychological novel set in Budapest. Various. Zabójczy pocisk, 2018, Skarpa Warszawska, pp.376, 9788363842765, £15.99 An anthology of crime stories. Witkiewicz, Magdalena & Alek Rogoziński. Biuro M, 2018, Filia, pp.360, 9788380754577, £15.50 Chic lit. Basia, an IT specialist, is heartbroken and disillusioned. In an attempt to change her life completely, she moves in with her aunt and finds a new job. Will she find happiness again? www.grantandcutler.com 29 Grant & Cutler at Foyles: Foreign Fiction Catalogue October 2018

Wroński, Marcin et al. Gliny z innej gliny, 2018, W.A.B., pp.320, 9788328050341, £16.50 Crime stories. Żarski, Przemysław. Umwelt, 2018, Muza SA, pp.448, 9788328708075, £16.50 Crime. The body of a young teacher is found in a park. The murderer has left no clues apart from a butterfly in her coat pocket. Zientek, Sylwia. Hotel Varsovie: Bunt chimery, 2018, W.A.B., pp.620, 9788328048614, £14.99 Family saga set in Warsaw. Żulczyk, Jakub. Zrób mi jakąś krzywdę, 2018, Swiat ksiazki, pp.272, hardback, 9788380317482, £12.90 Bestseller. A young couple on a hitchhiking trip across Poland. Translations into Polish Anyuru, Johannes. Utoną we łzach swoich matek, 2018, Proszynski Media, pp.328, 9788381232777, £14.50 One winter night in Gothenburg. Three individuals, who have sworn allegiance to the crumbling terror state of Daesh, enter a local book store where a controversial comic artist has been invited to talk about freedom of expression and blasphemy. Translation from Swedish. Barnett, Laura. Najwieksze przeboje, 2018, Czarna Owca, 9788380157507, £15.99 Translation of 'Greatest hits'. Bonnier, Jonas. Helikopter, 2018, Znak, 9788324053636, £15.99 English title: 'The helicopter heist'. Translation from Swedish. Bussi, Michel. Mowili, ze jest piekna, 2018, Swiat ksiazki, 9788380311060, £14.99 Leyli from Mali arrived in Marseilles a few years ago. She is a mother of three children and works as a cleaner in a hotel. One day her daughter is accused of having murdered a charity worker who helps migrants. Translation from French. Carr, Caleb. Miasteczko Surrender, 2018, Rebis, 9788380623484, £15.99 Translation of 'Surrender, New York'. Cocozza, Paula. Jak być człowiekiem, 2018, Czarna Owca, 9788380158450, £15.99 Translation of 'How to be human'. Flint, Sarah. Kłamca, kłamca, 2018, Amber, 9788324166312, £14.99 Translation of 'Liar, liar'. Fuentes, Carlos. Kraina najczystszego powietrza, 2018, PIW, pp.552, hardback, 9788306034585, £14.99 Fuentes' debut novel that became an instant bestseller. English title "Where the air is clear". Jansson, Tove. Uczciwa oszustka, 2018, Nasza Ksiegarnia, 9788310132253, £13.99 English title: 'Fair Play'. Translation from Finnish. Jones, Sandie. Rywalka, 2018, Otwarte, 9788375155037, £14.99 Translation of 'The Other woman'. Kitamura, Katie. Rozstanie, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, hardback, 9788308065518, £15.99 Translation of 'A Separation'. Louis, Édouard. Historia przemocy, 2018, Pauza, pp.192, 9788394941468, £15.50 English title: "History of violence". Translation from French. Lunde, Maja. Blekit, 2018, Wydawnictwo Literackie, hardback, 9788308065389, £17.99 Following the success of 'The history of bees', Lunde's latest novel discusses the issue of water as a resource essential to our survival and well-being. Translation from Norwegian. Magariel, Daniel. Nasz chlopak, 2018, Pauza, 9788394941444, £15.99 Translation of 'One of the boys'. Matlwa, Kopano. Kwiat, który zakwita o zmierzchu, 2018, Czarna Owca, pp.160, 9788380157880, £12.50 Translation of "Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times". Matthews, Jason. Czerwona jaskolka, 2018, Swiat ksiazki, 9788381390347, £14.99 Translation of 'Red Sparrow'.

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McDermid, Val. Miejsce egzekucji, 2018, Papierowy Ksiezyc, 9788365830319, £16.99 Translation of 'A Place of execution'. Miller, Madeline. Kirke, 2018, Albatros, pp.416, hardback, 9788381253048, £16.99 Bestseller. Translation of "Circe". Moyes, Jojo. Moje serce w dwoch swiatach, 2018, Znak, 9788324047888, £14.99 Translation of 'Still me'. Musso, Guillaume. Apartament w Paryzu, 2018, Albatros, 9788381252379, £14.99 Two strangers rent by mistake the same Parisian studio that belonged to a famous artist. They discover that three paintings have disappeared. Translation from French. Page, Libby. Kapielisko, 2018, Czarna Owca, 9788380158092, £15.99 Translation of 'The Lido'. Perrotta, Tom. Pani Fletcher, 2018, Znak, 9788324048120, £15.99 Translation of 'Mrs. Fletcher'. Pietrkiewicz, Jerzy. Zdobycz i wierność, 2018, W.A.B., pp.256, hardback, 9788328051812, £16.50 Translation of "Loot and loyalty", originally written by the author in English after he settled in the United Kingdom. Translated by poet and writer Jacek Dehnel. Puértolas, Romain. Niezwykła podróż fakira, który utknął w szafie, 2018, Sonia Draga, 9788381105569, £13.99 English title: 'The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe'. Translation from French. Reeve, Philip. Zabojcze maszyny, 2018, Amber, 9788324167203, £14.99 Translation of 'Mortal engines'. Slimani, Leïla. W ogrodzie pożądania: Madame Bovary naszych czasów, 2018, Sonia Draga, pp.264, 9788381102933, £15.50 Erotic novel. Translation from French. Smith, Zadie. Widzi mi się, 2018, Znak, pp.400, hardback, 9788324054176, £14.50 Translation of "Feel free". Zumas, Leni. Czerwone zegary, 2018, Czarna Owca, 9788380156180, £14.99 Translation of 'Red Clocks'.

Russian

New Fiction BESTSELLER Arkhangelskii, Aleksandr. Biuro proverki, 2018, AST, pp.413, hardback, 9785171089740, £21.99 The novel is at once a coming of age story, thriller and a portrait of an era. Set against the backdrop of opulent, yet stuffy Olympic Moscow it tells of young Alexey Nogovitsin who's seemingly tested unbeknownst to himself. Danikhnov, Vladimir. Tvar razmerom s koleso obozreniia, 2018, Eksmo, pp.416, hardback, 9785040933518, £19.99 The book is dedicated to the subject of being ill with cancer, yet it is not the usual "fight against the disease" story. Much more it is a book about the subject and nature of fear and dealing with it. Dezombe, Daria. Portret mertvoi naturshchitsi, 2018, Eksmo, pp.320, 9785040956814, £5.99 A crime novel set in Paris it tells the story of a case in which each of the victims bears an uncanny resemblance to the bather in a famous Ingres painting.

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Filomonov, Andrei. Retsepti sotvoreniia mira, 2018, AST, pp.320, hardback, 9785171065027, £17.50 The protagonist's quest lies in the labyrinth of one family's history, winding from Paris to Siberia through the entire 20th century. The novel can be seen as a wondrous tale but it is based on real experience. Galego, Ruben. Beloe na chernom, 2018, Limbus Press, pp.224, hardback, 9785837005084, £10.99 Written by a Russian author, Rubens Galego, the grandson of the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain. This is an autobiographical novel, which deals with his experience in Soviet schools for disabled children. BESTSELLER Iakhina, Guzel. Deti Moi, 2018, AST, pp.496, hardback, 9785171077662, £18.99 The new book by literary sensation and the most awarded author of 2018. "Deti Moi" tells the story of Volga Germans, revealing a world that is original and alive, created by outsiders in a foreign country. It is also a love story. Idiatullin, Shamil. Ubir. Dilogiia, 2018, Azbuka, pp.608, hardback, 9785389146990, £18.50 This novel fits at once into the intellectual fantasy and horror genres, a novel for adults and teenagers alike. It's a story of a brother and sister and their plight with a vampire. There are many bad people around them and children can be so gullible... Karetnikova, Anna. Privet, Andrei, 2018, Roman Moscow, pp.152, hardback, 9785824201611, £15.20 In this book the reader dives into the complex psychological experiences of the heroine. Their roots go deep into her past, but subconsciously influence her feelings and relationship with men causing her to suffer Stockholm syndrome. Ketro, Marta. Vse devochki snezhinki, a malchiki klouni, 2018, AST, M, pp.288, hardback, 9785171093303, £16.50 In the kindergarten of the city of Saransk, a New Year party is being prepared. The roles assigned to the children, however, will create a moral argument on how gender roles are perceived and projected. Koff, Nataliza. Koliuchka i bogatir, 2018, AST, pp.320, hardback, 9785171056421, £12.50 Once upon a time there was a girl called Victoria who lives a quiet and measured life until she meets and falls in love with the silent Bogatir. Merkin, Andrei. Mi - chempioni!, 2018, AST, pp.288, hardback, 9785171073305, £13.50 In an original, yet easy manner the novel describes bright and significant events in the author's life against the backdrop of football matches, amorous adventures, military service and life's troubles. BESTSELLER Metlitskaia, Mariia. Takova Zhizn, 2018, Eksmo, pp.320, hardback, 9785040909018, £15.99 The heroes in this collection of stories know all too well what loss, disappointment and treachery feel like. Yet they know something else too — that life is worth living and they appreciate every moment of it. Mikhalkova, Elena. Sled lisi na kamniakh, 2018, AST, pp.416, hardback, 9785170974597, £15.99 Detectives Iliushin and Babkin are facing an unusual case - this time their client is a killer. Yet, was there any murder at all? Looking for his nonexistent victim feels like trying to get hold of a ghost. Nosov, Sergei. Daite mne obezianu, 2018, Limbus Press, pp.304, hardback, 9785837008481, £15.50 This book is not a textbook of life. It is much more informative, useful, witty and, perhaps, more dangerous than that. Therefore, everyone beware: arming oneself with knowledge may pose a threat! BESTSELLER Ovechkin, Eduard. Akuli iz stali. Poslednii pokhod, 2018, AST, pp.352, hardback, 9785179833468, £13.50 Collection of naval stories, saturated with humour, irony, all-conquering optimism and an unexpectedly sober outlook on complex life problems. —— Nord, nord i nemnogo vest, 2018, AST, pp.320, hardback, 9785171112936, £12.99 The stories by Ovechkin describe the lives of submariners, both at work under water and on the land. The dynamic narrative written by a professional, the original naval humour and the dangerous situations make it a fascinating work to read. Peppershtein, Pavel. Predatel ada, 2018, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, pp.312, hardback, 9785444807026, £18.99 A collection of beautiful and surreal, yet psychologically incisive short stories.

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Ribakova, Mariia. Ostrii nozh dlia miagkogo serdtsa, 2018, Ripol Klassik, pp.192, hardback, 9785386089160, £15.99 A touching novel about love between Russian girl Marina and Hispanic Ortiz. It is a love story that transcends human beings as Ortiz is actually a river and only for a short while becomes a man - thanks to the heroine's strong emotions. Rogovaia, Elena. I zdraste vam cherez okno, 2018, Eksmo, pp.320, hardback, 9785040934829, £15.50 Aunty Sara is inquisitive, omniscient and loves to give unsolicited advice. She spends a lot of time looking out of her window onto the courtyard in Odessa. Yet, when the crisis comes, she is the one who will help and save the day. Romanova, Galina. Gnev vliublennoi zhenshchini, 2018, Eksmo, pp.320, 9785040951178, £5.50 Just like in an old anecdote, Olga finds her husband and his mistress in bed together. After an outburst of anger she leaves and hopes to never see them again. But then she becomes a suspect for a brutal beating and a murder. Romanova, Mariana. Ostrov Smertushkin, 2018, AST, pp.320, hardback, 9785170908868, £13.50 Chilling novel set on the Southern island, whose inhabitants practice rituals that demand a human sacrifice. It makes the reader think about the nature of mystery, magic and what is accessible to a human beings. BESTSELLER Romanova, Olga. Rus sidiashchaia, 2018, AST, pp.352, hardback, 9785171068653, £19.50 Written by an experienced journalist who has visited many Russian prisons and talked to inmates, their relatives and law enforcement. It contains short stories about this harsh, cruel world. Some of them have a happy ending, some don't. Salnikov, Alexey. Otdel, 2018, Laivbuk, pp.432, hardback, 9785604008317, £18.99 Igor did not have great expectations when he started a job in a half forgotten boiler room in the industrial area of the town. One night while drunk he climbs up the staircase to his neighbours. This is when the noise of gunshots startles him. Saveleva, Olga. Poputchitsa, 2018, Bombora, pp.320, hardback, 9785040902224, £13.50 The book is a collection of short stories, based on the experience of the author - her daily encounters with unknown people and her willingness to help to those in need. Everyday conversations creates a unique mosaic of characters and deeds. Se, Slava. Santekhnik s pilu i zharom, 2018, AST, pp.256, hardback, 9785171049287, £14.75 He is an optimist. He has an ironic, philosophical attitude to everyday problems. He also is a perfect man! The only problem is that he is married to an ugly friend! Contains new and old stories from the life of the famous plumber. Senich, Roman. Dozhd v Parizhe, 2018, AST, pp.416, hardback, 9785171076085, £17.50 The protagonist of the novel goes to Paris, a city that he hopes can uplift him and make him to forget the strip of failures in his personal life. He ends up never leaving his hotel room, yet will this introspection bring any good? Sluzhitel, Grigorii. Dni Saveliia, 2018, AST, pp.384, hardback, 9785171091583, £20.50 Written from a cat's perspective the novel follows the life story of Savelius from being a kitten through the rest of his eventful life. The book can also be seen as a love letter to Moscow. Stepnova, Tatiana. Sozvezdie Khaosa, 2018, Eksmo-Press, pp.347, hardback, 9785040901302, £12.99 Journalist Ekaterina Petrovskaia travels to the town of Ereb, situated near Moscow. This is where a series of monstrous murders have taken place and the bodies of brutally killed women have been found dressed in costumes of flies. BESTSELLER Ulitskaia, Liudmila. Chelovek v Istorii, 2018, AST, pp.384, hardback, 9785170945535, £18.99 A collection of testimonies of not widely known, yet remarkable people, who have lived difficult, worthy and sometimes heroic lives. These stories often can help the reader to connect with their ancestry better than official history.

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BESTSELLER Various. Kniga gastronomicheskikh istorii, 2018, Limbus Press, pp.272, hardback, 9785837008177, £18.50 A collection of personal stories with a culinary touch. It contains work by popular, yet very different contemporary artists and authors — Narine Abgarian, Liudmila Ulitskaia, Renata Litvinova, Sergei Nosov, and many others. Vishnevskaia, Marina. Vechnaia zhizn Lizi K, 2018, AST, pp.320, hardback, 9785171072544, £15.50 The present-day heroine of this novel is based on the famous character of Natasha Rostova from "War and Peace". She experiences every moment of life just as fully. Yet, her focus will be challenged due to some dramatic events to come. Zotov, Sergei. Tirgarten, 2018, AST, pp.384, hardback, 9785171012373, £15.99 Berlin, shortly before the fall of the Third Reich. Inspector Luttwitz is investigating a series of murders, bodies have been discovered in the Tiergarten park. In parts occupied by the Red Army inspector Komarovsky deals with similar crimes. Translations into Russian Barnes, Julian. Odna Istoriia, 2018, Azbuka, pp.320, hardback, 9785389140141, £9.99 Translation of "The Only Story". Clement, Jennifer. Molitvi ob Ukradennikh, 2018, Sindbad, pp.256, hardback, 9785001310082, £15.99 Translation of "Prayers For the Stolen". Finn, A.J. Zhenshchina v okne, 2018, Azbuka, pp.416, hardback, 9785389132658, £11.99 Translation of "The Woman In The Window". Haddon, Mark. Zagadochnoe nochnoe ubiistvo sobaki, 2018, Rama Pablishing, pp.272, hardback, 9785917430751, £12.99 Translation of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Murakami, Ryu. 69, 2018, Palmira, pp.208, hardback, 9785521008841, £10.99 Translation of "69". Slimani, Leila. Idealnaia Niania, 2018, Sindbad, pp.224, hardback, 9785001310051, £22.99 Translation of "Lullaby" Smith, Zadie. Belie Zubi, 2018, Eksmo, pp.576, hardback, 9785040948758, £13.99 Translation of "White Teeth" —— O Krasote, 2018, Eksmo, pp.512, hardback, 9785040929191, £16.99 Translation of "On Beauty". —— Vremia Svinga, 2018, Eksmo, pp.480, hardback, 9785040908431, £16.99 Translation of "Swing Time". Towles, Amor. Dzhentlmen v Moskve, 2018, Eksmo, pp.512, hardback, 9785040939671, £15.99 Translation of "A Gentleman In Moscow". Yanagihara, Hanya. Liudi sredi derevev, 2018, AST, pp.480, hardback, 9785171023256, £15.99 Translation of "The People in the Trees".

Spanish

New Fiction Arce, Enrique. La grandeza de las cosas sin nombre, 2018, La esfera de los libros, pp.328, 9788491643845, £21.50 The important things in life have no name, they are just a feeling or a moment that change our lives. This novel talks about emotions, unpredicted moments, and the value of doing what you want to do, in spite of others.

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Axat, Federico. Amnesia, 2018, Ediciones Destino, pp.464, 9788423354306, £21.99 John Brenner, twenty-seven years old, is a former alcoholic. On May15th he wakes up on the floor next to an empty vodka bottle, a pistol and the corpse of an unknown young girl, with no recollection of the previous hours. Barceló, Elia. Las largas sombras, 2018, Roca Editorial de libros, pp.384, hardback, 9788417092719, £18.50 Rita returns to her hometown after many years after her friend Lena is found dead in her house. What at first seems like a suicide, begins to take the shape of murder. Rita gathers her old friends to talk about something that happened in the past. Belli, Gioconda. Las fiebres de la memoria, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.368, 9788432234125, £21.99 Charles Choiseul de Praslin, a noble of the court of King Louis Philippe I of Orléans, is accused of the terrible murder of his wife, to whom he was unfaithful. At the request of the king himself, De Praslin fakes his death and flees to New York. BESTSELLER Benítez, J.J. Gog, 2018, Planeta, pp.168, hardback, 9788408193272, £22.99 J. J. Benítez returns with his most anticipated book since Caballo de Troya; Gog is an exciting story about a near end of time. BESTSELLER Castillo, Javier. El dia que se perdio el amor, 2018, SUMA, pp.432, 9788491291732, £20.99 Addictive, fast-paced and absorbing, Javier Castillo, author of the hit thriller "El día que se perdido de cordura", takes us back to a frantic story loaded with suspense and love in equal parts. Cavanda, Yahvé M. de la. El deseo de repetir, 2018, Aloha Editorial, pp.186, 9788494816208, £21.99 Three characters at a vital crossroads. A playlist composed of conformism, frustration and the dream of finding something better. Chaparro, Carme. La química del odio, 2018, Espasa Libros, pp.416, hardback, 9788467052633, £21.99 For Chief Inspector Ana Arén there is no truce: after resolving the case that practically ended her career, she must face a devilish challenge: the murder of one of the most famous women in Spain. Cisneros, Renato. Dejarás la tierra, 2018, Planeta, pp.352, hardback, 9788408194378, £21.99 An ancient silence hid the mystery of a family in Peru for two hundred years. This novel reminds us that families are full of secrets and that only a prose capable of traversing the visible can trace the channel of what we call identity. Delibes, Miguel. La bruja Leopoldina y otras historias reales, 2018, Destino, pp.288, hardback, 9788423353880, £21.50 This book brings together the stories of "Mi vida al aire libre" and "Tres pájaros de cuenta", and a to date unpublished story, a story written and drawn by the hand of Miguel Delibes himself in his youth. Escobar Goleros, Mario. Antes de septiembre, 2018, Ediciones B, pp.416, 9788466663915, £22.99 On August 13, 1961, Berliners wake up to the bitter news of the construction of the wall. Built unexpectedly, the wall not only divides the city in two, but also separates numerous families like Stefan, who is far from his wife and daughter. Espinosa, Albert. Finales que merecen una historia, 2018, Grijalbo, pp.224, 9788425355899, £19.99 A collection of 21 short stories. Ferrari, Kike. Que de lejos parecen moscas, 2018, Alfaguara, pp.192, 9788420431932, £20.50 The life of Mr. Machi, owner of a small empire in Argentina that flourished under the military dictatorship, changes drastically when he finds a body in the boot of his BMW, tied up with the pink stuffed handcuffs he uses with his lovers. García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva. Los señores del tiempo (La ciudad blanca, 3), 2018, Planeta, pp.448, hardback, 9788408193296, £21.99 Final instalment of the "Ciudad blanca" trilogy. Unai López faces some baffling deaths that follow a medieval modus operandi. They are identical to the murders described in the novel "Los señores del tiempo", written by pen name 'Diego Veilaz'.

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BESTSELLER Gutiérrez, Pablo. Cabezas cortadas, 2018, Seic Barral, pp.248, 9788432234118, £19.99 Maria moves abroad to escape mediocrity and boredom. A notebook, a precarious salary and a roof are all she needs. But around her, brigades of volunteers chase immigrants; María will take shelter in the past, and in the dangerous pages she writes. Herrán de Viu, Pablo. Manuel Bergman, 2018, Dos bigotes, pp.200, 9788494682490, £23.50 Jorge, a young aspiring screenwriter, has lived in New York for two years with his boyfriend, and feels he has lost his ambitions. Searching for inspiration, he becomes friends with Eve Sternberg, a successful playwright on the threshold of old age. Hill, Toni. Tigres de cristal, 2018, Grijalbo, pp.480, 9788425356483, £22.50 At the end of the 70s, the friendship between Víctor Yagüe and Juanpe Zamora is compromised when a tragic event forces them to choose between loyalty and salvation.Thirty-seven years later, they meet again in very different circumstances. Maqueda, Álvaro. Al otro lado, 2018, Ediciones Martínez Roca, pp.120, 9788427044654, £13.99 The priest Jorge Ponce wakes up locked in a dark room. Beside him is a chained man, who he suspects may be his kidnapper. BESTSELLER Mendoza, Eduardo. El rey recibe, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.368, 9788432234071, £21.99 Rufo Batalla receives his first assignment from the newspaper: to cover the wedding of an exiled prince to a beautiful young lady of high society. When he ends up befriending the prince, he is asked to write the chronicles of his peculiar story. Mendoza, Élmer. Asesinato en el Parque Sinaloa, 2018, Literatura Random House, pp.272, 9788439734512, £19.99 Edgar Mendienta has decided to retire from the police. Disenchanted by violence, he devotes himself to whiskey until Abel Sánchez, his old friend and mentor, convinces him to take on a case he cannot refuse. Menébdez Salmón, Ricardo. Homo Lubitz, 2018, Planeta, pp.272, 9788432233296, £20.50 Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai to sign a contract between the Government of China and Western pharmacists that will make him a rich man. He then receives a strange assignment that will take him around the world. Molina, César Antonio. Tan poderoso como el amor, 2018, Ediciones Destino, pp.448, 9788423353651, £23.99 What is love? What meaning does it have? And where do we find it? The writer explores the concept of love through a fabulous cinematic journey of 100 films. BESTSELLER Molist, Jorge. Canción de sangre y oro, 2018, Planeta, pp.656, hardback, 9788408192541, £23.50 Winner of the Premio Lara 2018. An epic tale of love and freedom, on how the Crown of Aragon and the Sicilians, led by Peter III the Great, changed the history of Europe and amazed the world. Montfort, Vanessa. El sueño de la crisálida, 2018, Plaza & Janés, pp.400, 9788401021060, £20.99 Patricia, a journalist in crisis, is recovering from a heart attack caused by stress when she casually meets Cata, a mysterious and rebelious woman who will teach her that, to survive in an insecure world, you must believe in yourself. Moro, Javier. Mi pecado, 2018, Espasa Libros, pp.382, hardback, 9788467051711, £21.99 Winner of the "Premio Primavera 2018"Fictionalisation of the story of Spanish Actress Conchita Montenegro who started her Hollywood career in 1930, at the age of 19. Navarro, Julia. Tú no matarás, 2018, Plaza & Janés, pp.992, 9788401021169, £25.99 Fernando decides to flee from Spain after the Civil War, with his friends Catalina and Eulogio. The three are slaves to their silence amd to the secrets that accompany them as they struggle to live in a strange land, far from their own. Orriols, Marta. Aprender a hablar con las plantas, 2018, Lumen, pp.256, 9788426405470, £19.99 Paula Cid is a 42-year-old neonatologist with a controlled and orderly life. Passionate about her work and immersed in the routine of a relationship that's breaking apart, she loses Mauro in a traffic accident a few hours after confessing he loves another woman and wants a divorce.

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Oruña, María. Donde fuimos invencibles, 2018, Ediciones Destino, pp.492, 9788423353668, £20.99 The summer is ending and Lieutenant Valentina Redondo is counting down the days to her holiday. However, something unusual happens in the very centre of Suances: the gardener of an old palace is found dead in the parterre of the enigmatic property. Osorio, Elsa. Doble fondo, 2018, Tusquets Editores, pp.336, 9788490665008, £20.99 The body of the respected Dr. Marie Le Boullec appears on the shores of a quiet fishing village in France. These circumstances attract the attention of a young local journalist, Muriel, who does not believe it was a suicide. Padura, Leonardo. La transparencia del tiempo, 2018, Tusquets Editores S.A., pp.448, 9788490664797, £22.99 A story that masterfully presents the investigations of Detective Mario Conde in Havana. A dazzling journey through time and history. Pascual, Andrés. A merced de un dios salvaje, 2018, Espasa, pp.440, hardback, 9788467052718, £21.50 Hugo Betancor, a widowed press photographer, arrives in the town of San Vicente de la Sonsierra to claim an inheritance for Raúl, his eleven-year-old son suffering from a serious illness. From the moment they both set foot in Finca Las Brumas, everything begins to twist uncontrollably. Peñalver, Clara. Las voces de Carol, 2018, Ediciones B, pp.408, hardback, 9788466664165, £21.99 The murder of Abril Zondervan shocks public opinion: the internationally successful writer has been found dead, apparently without signs of violence, in her home in Málaga. Inspector Carol Medina is in charge of the investigation. BESTSELLER Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Sabotaje (Falcó, 3), 2018, Alfaguara, pp.376, hardback, 9788420432458, £21.99 Third instalment in the Falcó series. Pombo, Álvaro. Retrato del vizconde en invierno, 2018, Ediciones Destino, pp.300, 9788423354429, £21.99 Horacio lives in a large attic in Espalter with his son and daughter, and his 20 years younger lover, Lola. For his eightieth birthday, they decide to give him a portrait, commissioned by a highly-esteemed and prestigious artist from Madrid. Portabales, Arantza. Deje su mensaje después de la señal, 2018, Lumen, pp.272, 9788426405524, £20.50 Unable to face their secrets, loneliness and the men they would like to talk to, the four protagonists of this choral novel prefer to make their confessions to an answering machine. Ramos, Pedro. Tres mil noches con Marga, 2018, Ediciones Destino, pp.360, 9788423354290, £19.99 Marga is a young Galician biologist, brilliant in her profession, who has worked as a researcher in Alaska for six years. Though she has never returned to visit her family, the news of her father's illness will make her return immediately. Rey, Jacinto. La noche de las Medusas, 2018, Suma, pp.312, 9788491291428, £20.99 One after another, the important people in Serafin Leal's life are being killed. The private detective in charge of the case discovers that his client's past hides secrets that will be unveiled with unpredictable consequences. Robles, Marta. La mala suerte, 2018, Espasa Libros, pp.424, 9788467052664, £21.99 The charismatic Detective Roures returns to confront the strange disappearance of a young girl in Mallorca; after two years of intense searches, there seems to be no resolution. BESTSELLER Rosa, Isaac. Feliz final, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.344, 9788432234101, £19.99 A great love story narrated backwards; a young couple who, like so many, fell in love, had children and fought against everything - even against one another, and struggled not to give up. San Sebastián, Isabel. La peregrina, 2018, Plaza & Janés, pp.552, hardback, 9788401019982, £22.50 A historical novel set in the year 827. In his small warrior court, Alfonso II, king of Asturias, receives an extraordinary piece of news: in a forest near Iria Flavia, where the world ends, the remains of the apostle Santiago have been found.

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Sánchez, Ginés. Mujeres en la oscuridad, 2018, Tusquets Editores, pp.592, 9788490665657, £21.99 Three different women, whose lives are intertwined unbeknowst to them, run away. They all have something in common: a dull life and the desire to find love. Sánchez, Roberto. Asesinos de series, 2018, Roca editorial de libros, pp.320, 9788417092894, £21.50 Three young bloggers, addicted to a television series, are called in to help solve a murder case with a modus operandi related to popular TV programmes. Santiago, Mikel. El estraño verano de Tom Harvey, 2018, Penguin, pp.504, 9788490705483, £13.99 An idyllic place bathed by the blinding light of the Mediterranean. A gallery of quirky, charismatic and suspicious characters. A "whodunit" thriller where anybody can be guilty until proven otherwise. —— La isla de las últimas voces, 2018, Ediciones B, pp.560, 9788466664080, £21.99 On an island lost in the North Sea, a strange box is washed ashore by the waves. Almost everybody fled on the last ferry, but there are still a handful of people left on the island. Santos, Care. Todo el bien y todo el mal, 2018, Destino, pp.416, hardback, 9788423354436, £22.99 Sergio, an 18-year-old boy with a seemingly happy life, tries to commit suicide. His mother, Reina, a woman who is going through a life crisis, will try to understand the reasons that led him to it. Silva, Lorenzo. Lejos del corazón, 2018, Destino, pp.350, 9788423353903, £18.99 A young man convicted of cybercrime is kidnapped and held ransom by a group of men. He isn't released after his family has paid the money, and the investigation leads the police into a microcosm in which laws are relative. Soto-Trillo, Eduardo. Yo nunca, 2018, Ediciones B, pp.368, 9788466663137, £20.99 In a peaceful Galician valley, full of silence and suspicion, three people develop a love triangle that will blur the boundaries between passion and madness. BESTSELLER Vargas Llosa, Mario. La llamada de la tribu, 2018, Alfaguara, pp.320, 9788420431994, £19.99 Autobiographical novel in which Vargas Llosa walks the reader through all the relevant literary works that have shaped his thinking for the past 50 years. BESTSELLER Volpi, Jorge. Una novela criminal, 2018, Alfaguara, pp.504, 9788420432274, £24.50 Winner of the XXI Alfaguara award 2018. Novelisation of the events which occurred on December 8, 2005, south of Mexico City, when federal police arrested and tortured Israel Vallarta and Florence Cassez as a result of a corruption plot. Reprints Allende, Isabel. El amante japonés, 2018, Punto de lectura, pp.352, hardback, 9788466347099, £14.99 Isabel Allende narrates the love story between Alma Velasco and Japanese gardener Ichimei. It takes the reader on a journey from the Poland of the Second World War to present day San Francisco. Bosch, Xavier. Alguien como tú, 2018, Booket, pp.352, 9788408193913, £11.99 On a visit to Paris for a wedding Paulina, from a quiet family background in Barcelona, meets Jean-Pierre, a free spirit who lives on the Left Bank. Her daughter, Gina, reconstructs their powerful love story from documents, memories and the recollections of people who knew them. Cercas, Javier. El monarca de las sombras, 2018, Punto de Lectura, pp.288, 9788466344142, £14.99 "El monarca de las sombras" recounts the search for any trace of an almost anonymous boy who fought for an unjust cause and died on the wrong side of history. Chaparro, Carme. No soy un monstruo, 2018, Espasa Libros, pp.336, 9788467052473, £11.99 Winner of the Premio Primavera award 2017. Debut novel. A boy disappears in a shopping centre; from that moment, a neverending chase will keep you on edge until the end. Correa, Armando Lucas. La niña alemana, 2018, Zeta Bolsillo, pp.448, 9788490705087, £14.99 In 1939, Cuba gives asylum to a few Jews fleeing the Nazis, and turns away the rest. Seven decades later, a young girl from New York travels to La Habana, to visit the grandmother she never met, and discover her secrets.

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De la Rosa, Julio Manuel. El ermitaño del rey, 2018, Algaida Editores, pp.250, 9788491890126, £17.50 About to write a will, Benito Arias Montano finds a forgotten paper with the name Desiderii written on it. The former chaplain of Philip II begins a journey during some crucial years in the history of sixteenth- century Europe. Del Árbol, Víctor. Por encima de la lluvia, 2018, Destino, pp.512, 9788423354467, £11.99 Miguel and Helena live in a care home in Tarifa and feel that they have been relegated to an almost ornamental plane. The dramatic suicide of a resident opens their eyes and they decide they do not want to spend their last days remembering times gone by. Falcones, Idelfonso. Los herederos de la tierra, 2018, Debolsillo, pp.912, 9788466343763, £14.99 Ten years ago, millions of readers surrendered to "La catedral del mar". Now, the story continues with this impressive recreation of medieval Barcelona, a splendid and exciting novel of loyalty, revenge, love and dreams to fulfil. Fresán, Rodrigo. La parte soñada, 2018, Debolsillo, pp.529, 9788466344135, £11.50 How does a writer dream? This is the second volume of a trilogy in which Rodrigo Fresán investigates the mechanism and the gears that make the mind of a writer work. Grandes, Almudena. Los besos en el pan, 2018, Maxi-Tusquets, pp.336, 9788490665817, £14.99 You ought to be very brave to ask for help, but you have to be braver to accept it. The characters in this novel will live bittersweet moments of unexpected solidarity, indignation and rage, but also of tenderness and tenacity. López Barrio, Cristina. La casa de los amores imposibles, 2018, Plaza & Janés, pp.480, 9788401021671, £20.30 The women of the Laguna family have been cursed from the beginning of their lineage: one after the other they suffer lovesickness and only give birth to unlucky girls. But after decades, the first boy is born. Will the curse be finally lifted? —— Niebla en Tánger, 2018, Booket, pp.448, 9788408195184, £14.99 Planeta Award Finalist 2017. Cristina López Barrio narrates the life of a woman trapped in mediocrity that takes an irreversible turn after going to bed with a mysterious stranger. Martínez de Pisón, Ignacio. Derecho natural, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.448, 9788432234279, £11.99 Set during the early days of the Spanish Transition, "Derecho natural" shows the legislative development of an era in conflict with a past, in which there was no relation between law and justice. Martínez, Gabi. Las defensas, 2018, Booket, pp.496, 9788432234170, £11.99 A novel based on the unprecedented real story of Dr. Escudero,who suffered from the very same disease he was reasearching and was always convinced of having received a wrong diagnosis. Mendoza, Eduardo. El secreto de la modelo extraviada, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.320, 9788432234149, £12.50 A forgotten mystery from 20 years ago comes back to haunt Mendoza's idiosyncratic detective. The novel also examines the huge changes in Barcelona in recent years. Neuman, Andrés. Hablar solos, 2018, Debolsillo, pp.184, 9788466345545, £12.99 Father and son go travelling together whilst the mother takes her own route. Alternating between tenderness and cruelty, this is a disturbing novel about family ties. Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Falcó, 2018, Debolsillo, pp.304, 9788466343039, £14.99 Falcó is assigned with infiltrating a difficult mission that could change the course of the history of Spain. A man and two women will be companions in adventure and perhaps its victims, at a time in which life is subject to the danger of betrayals and nothing is what it seems. Redondo, Dolores. Todo esto te daré, 2018, Planeta, pp.624, 9788408196440, £14.99 An unexpected death. A dark family secret. The search for truth in the heart of a strange land. Planeta Prize winner 2016. Rhei, Sofía. Espérame en la última página, 2018, Debolsillo, pp.304, 9788466343404, £9.99 Silvia is about to turn 40 and lives in Paris. She is Alain's lover, a married man who tells her the same story each night to keep her with him. In spite of knowing the story is not true, she falls for him again and again.

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Robles, Marta. A menos de cinco centímetros, 2018, Espasa Libros, pp.352, 9788467053234, £10.99 Misia Rothman, the beautiful and sensitive wife of a billionaire, is fascinated by Artigas, the most successful writer of the moment. Detective Roures, a former war correspondent, is trusted with a peculiar murder accusation against Artigas. Ruiz Zafón, Carlos. El laberinto de los espíritus, 2018, Planeta, pp.928, 9788408195252, £13.99 Set in Barcelona in the late 1950s, this is the final volume of the trilogy which began with 'La sombra del viento'. An electrifying tale of passion, intrigue and adventure. Santiago, Roberto. Ana, 2018, Planeta, pp.864, 9788408181095, £13.99 "Ana", an absorbing thriller starring an intelligent but brilliant woman; self-destructive, unique. Translations into Spanish Atwood, Margaret. La semilla de la bruja, 2018, Editorial Lumen, pp.336, 9788426404404, £22.50 Translation of "Hag-seed". Bellairs, John. La casa del reloj en la pared, 2018, Alfaguara, pp.256, hardback, 9788420433608, £17.99 Translation of "The House With a Clock in Its Walls". Benjamin, Chloe. Los inmortales, 2018, Planeta, pp.400, 9788408193456, £21.99 Translation of "The Immortalists". Brundage, Elizabeth. La apariencia de las cosas, 2018, Duomo ediciones, pp.512, 9788417128562, £21.99 Translation of "All Things Cease to Appear". Carrisi, Donato. El maestro de las sombras, 2018, Duomo Ediciones, pp.372, 9788417128609, £12.99 English title: "The Hunter of the dark". Translation from Italian. Coelho, Paulo. Hippie, 2018, Planeta, pp.312, hardback, 9788408193470, £20.50 English title: "Hippie". Translation from Portuguese. Colombani, Laetitia. La trenza, 2018, Salamandra, pp.208, 9788498388800, £20.50 The crossed paths of three women, on three different continents. In India, Smita longs to escape her menial life, Julia in Palermo who discovers that her family’s business is failing, and Sarah, a Canadian lawyer who learns that she has a breast cancer. Translation from French. Dicker, Joël. La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer, 2018, Alfaguara, pp.672, 9788420432472, £24.50 Twenty years after the murder of the Mayor and his family in a small, quiet Hamptons resort in the state of New York, a journalist by the name of Stephanie Mailer tells the Police that the wrong person was convicted, shortly before disappearing herself. Translation from French. Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant está perfectamente, 2018, Roca Bolsillo, pp.320, 9788416859115, £13.50 Translation of "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" Louis, Édouard. Historia de la violencia, 2018, Salamandra, pp.192, 9788498388381, £17.99 English title: "History of violence". Translation from French. Martin, George R. R. Fuego y sangre, 2018, Plaza & Janés, pp.896, 9788401022166, £34.99 Translation of "Fire and Blood". Murakami, Haruki. La muerte del Comendador (book 1), 2018, Tusquets Editores, pp.432, 9788490665640, £23.99 English title: "Killing Commendatore". Translation from Japanese. Saunders, George. Lincoln en el Bardo, 2018, Seix Barral, pp.440, 9788432233593, £21.99 Translation of "Lincoln in the Bardo". Shapiro, B. A. La falsificadora de arte, 2018, Editorial Bóveda, pp.448, 9788416691784, £18.99 Translation of "Art Forger". Todd, Anna. Stars: Estrellas fugaces, 2018, Planeta, pp.400, 9788408193487, £18.99 Translation of "The Brightest stars".

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