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PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS Trade King of the Chicanos Grace, Tamar and Laszlo Manuel Ramos the Beautiful “Ramos is developing a powerful, distinctive series.” Deborah Kay Davies —Publishers Weekly, on The Ballad of Gato Guerrero “Deborah Kay Davies has achieved something rare: a collection of • Advertising in Booklist and Poets & Writers short stories wherein each story is complete in its own right • Author tour to include Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, (many were competition winners, or radio broadcasts) but which Greeley, and Pueblo, Colorado; Los Angeles; Albuquerque and also work together as a novella-length sequence.” Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Austin, Texas —Brandon Robshaw, Independent • Author’s previous books sold more than 120,000 copies • Winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2009 Award Both heroic and tragic, this novel captures the spirit, energy, and Part novel, part fantasy, part social history, this collection of imagination of the 1960s’ Chicano movement—a massive and in- short stories set in the valleys of South Wales follows the lives of tense struggle across a broad spectrum of political and cultural two sisters, Grace and Tamar. As these dark, universal stories de- issues—through the passionate story of the King of the Chicanos, tail their volatile sibling rivalry—on several occasions they al- Ramón Hidalgo. From his very humble beginnings through the most kill each other—their disruptive coming of age, and tumultuous decades of being a migrant farm worker, door-to- dubious maturity, they express how utterly strange it is to learn door salesman, prison inmate, political hack, and radical activist, to become human. While each story is complete in its own right, the novel relates Hidalgo’s personal failures and self-destructive together they form a continuous and powerful sequence. personality amid the political turmoil of the times. With a grad- ual acceptance of his destiny as a leader and hero of the people, Deborah Kay Davies is the author of a collection of poetry, Things this impassioned novel relates the maturation of one man while You Think I Don’t Know, as well as numerous stories. She is a encapsulating the fever of the Chicano movement. three-time winner in the Rhys Davies competition and winner of Wales Book of the Year in 2009. Manuel Ramos is the author of The Ballad of Gato Guerrero, The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, Blues for the Buffalo, Brown-on-Brown, The FICTION, 165 PAGES, 5.25 X 7.75 Last Client of Luis Móntez, and Moony's Road to Hell. He lives in TRADE PAPER, $12.95 (CAN $13.95) Denver, Colorado. 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Blending allegory with ing the past decade in which the deprived youths living in Lon- historical realism and subverting expectations in an unflinching don’s decaying council estates began to behave in an increasingly comedy of the macabre, these tales manage to be both phantas- wild manner. The book journeys through Lambeth Walk—the lo- magoric and shockingly real. For all the despair and darkness por- cation of one of the most famous street markets that has now be- trayed in these gripping stories—from spotlighting hostage-video come a glamorized representation of ghetto and grime in music makers in Baghdad to following human trafficking in Serbia’s videos. Giving an identity to a culture that remains a mystery to forests—what lingers more than the haunting images of war is the many, this chronicle contains interviews and personal recollec- spirit of defiance and of indefatigable courage. tions with key figures in the grime culture, including rappers Hassan Blasim is a writer, a poet, and an award-winning filmmaker. Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, and Jammer, and hip-hop DJ and producer He has written for www.iraqstory.com and his first short story in P. Money. Through their contributions, this book captures the English was published in Madinah: City Stories from the Middle harsh elements of the street—from raw violence to hard drugs— East. Jonathan Wright has been an Arabic translator for more along with the more intimate and tender moments of the lives of than 30 years and has worked as a journalist for Reuters. His first those that call South London home. major literary translation was Taxi by Khaled el-Khamissi. 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Chronicling how cial crime scene established, no measurements or photographs the reporters died as well as the eventual execution of a sixth re- taken into evidence, and no police logbooks recording the recov- porter who attempted to investigate their fate, this gripping de- ery of her body, Byrne’s then-boyfriend Gordon Wood very piction also documents the personal narratives behind the nearly got away with murder—until forensic science conclusively families of the victims and their heartbreaking struggle for the proved that Caroline could not possibly have jumped. This grip- truth. Contending that the Australian government was always ping narrative provides a detailed account of the investigation aware of the circumstances of the killings, this argument main- from the forensic scientist who produced the crucial evidence tains that their cover-up was a key factor in Indonesia’s decision that led to Wood’s conviction. to invade and occupy East Timor. With a striking collection of photographs from its thrilling companion film, this searing recol- Rod Cross is a forensic scientist and former professor of physics lection is as much an investigation of the Indonesian occupation at the University of Sydney where he worked in the plasma of East Timor as it is a case study of the Balibo killings. physics department. He is a consultant to Tennis Australia, the In- ternational Tennis Federation, and the New South Wales coroner Jill Jolliffe was working as a freelance correspondent for Reuters and homicide squad. when, in 1975, she witnessed the first incursions of Indonesian troops and reported the deaths of her five colleagues. She has fol- TRUE CRIME, 352 PAGES, 6 X 9.25 lowed and covered events for the Age, the Guardian, the Sunday TRADE PAPER, $28.95 (CAN $31.95) ISBN: 9781742231075 Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the BBC. 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