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God’s Dog Diego Marani Translated from the Italian by Judith Landry

I’m in such a hurry to tell the story of Django that I don’t know where to start: thoughts are piling up in my head and the words are getting all tangled up on the page. This whole business is a bombshell, indeed it may even portend the death of the Church as we know it.

Domingo Salazar is God’s dog. He’s a secret agent whose job is to fight the enemies of the Church, especially the elusive Ivan Zivago, arch-enemy of the Vatican, who is hatching a plot to ruin Diego Marani was born in the Holy Father’s canonisation. Ferrara Italy in 1959. He has worked as a translator and

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Swahili-speaking chimpanzee Django—are themselves being P and The Last of the Vostyachs investigated by the Church. are also published by Text. Set in a not-too-distant future, when Italy has become a Judith Landry was awarded the farcical theocracy, God’s Dog is another brilliant novel by the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation author of New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs. Prize in 2012 for Marani’s New Finnish Grammar.

Absurd, hilarious, filled with intrigue, this is a thriller unlike

january 2014 anything you have read before.

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Peter Temple’s most popular novel, with ANZ print sales of more than 90,000 copies and more than 250,000 worldwide. Film adaptation on ABCTV, starring Don Hany, Claudia Karvan, Robyn Nevin, Catherine McClements and Dan Wiley; written by Andrew Knight (SeaChange, Jack Irish), directed by Rowan

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There was a heavy chug from the motor and the smell of poorly burnt petrol; the handbrake; a door opening; the click as the boot released. He took the boy quickly. His big hands wrapped around the child’s arms and he yanked him out of the gap then grabbed him around the chest so he was pinned. n arti ‘Don’t move.’ M hilip P It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid Stephen Orr is the author in the car boot. He didn’t really know whether he’d seen anything at of several published works of fiction and non-fiction. all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father. ublishing Tex His novel Time’s Long Ruin Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where was shortlisted for the t his ailing, cantankerous father still lives, finds nothing. As far as Commonwealth Writers’ P he can tell no one in Guilderton is missing a small boy. Still, he Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in looks deeper into the butcher’s story—after all, he had a son of his 2011. He lives in Adelaide. own once. stephenorr.weebly.com But when the boy does turn up, silent, apparently traumatised,

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BY BLOOD WE LIVE THE LAST WEREWOLF TRILOGY III GLEN DUNCAN

I looked down to see seven or eight inches of a precision-pointed wooden javelin protruding from my gut. Lignum vitae. Second in hardness only to Australian buloke. In the moment it took me to turn around, I thought: this fucker isn’t taking any chances.

REMSHI is used to people trying to drive a stake through his heart. He’s been alive for twenty thousand years; it’s going to happen. But other things are changing. And there’s an aching gap in his memory that turns out to contain a werewolf (a werewolf?) to Glen Duncan is the author of whom he is irresistibly drawn. nine previous novels including I, Lucifer (2002), which was This is not just any werewolf, though. It’s Talulla Demetriou. shortlisted for the Geoffrey

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On Earth as It Is in Heaven A Novel Davide Enia Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

There are two of them in the boxing ring. One weighs 145 pounds, stands 5 foot 5, and is twenty-six years old. The other one? Nobody knows his weight and it doesn’t matter how tall he is, he’ll grow. No one has bandaged his wrists, he’s wearing boxing

gloves, he’s bouncing on his toes in the ring. Gianluca Moro He’s nine years old. Davide Enia was born in 1974 in Palermo. A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores friend- He has written, directed ship and family, love and betrayal, masculinity and violence. and performed in plays for the stage andublishing radio. Tex On Earth as It Is in

In the early 1980s Mafia gang wars are tearing the precari- Heaven, his first novel, t ously stitched-together city of Palermo apart. A fatherless has been translated into P nine-year-old boy climbs into a boxing ring to face his eighteen languages. Davide lives and first opponent… cooks in Rome. Davide Enia’s sweeping multigenerational saga reaches davideenia.org back to World War II and forward to talented young Davidù’s facebook.com/davide.enia

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An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine

‘An Unnecessary Woman dramatises a wonderful mind at play… filled with intelligence, sharpness and strange memories and regrets…And over all this fiercely original act of creation is the sky of Beirut throwing down a light which is both comic and tragic, alert to its own history and to its mythology, guarding over human frailty and the idea of the written word with love and wit and iebert S understanding and a rare sort of wisdom.’ Colm Tóibín a n le E Aaliya lives alone with her books—books she has collected over a Rabih Alameddine is lifetime, books she translates into Arabic with no likelihood that they the author of the novels Koolaids, I, the Divine, will ever be read. With her accidental blue-dyed hair, her cantankerous and The Hakawati, the dealings with her neighbours and her difficult relationship with her story collection Theublishing Perv Tex family, Aaliya is a character you will never forget. and, most recently, An Unnecessary Woman. He t An Unnecessary Woman is a sublime novel, a love letter to divides his time between P literature and its power to define who we are. San Francisco and Beirut. rabihalameddine.com ‘An intimate, melancholy and superb tour de force.’ Kirkus starred review @rabihalameddine ‘Bask in its sharp, smart prose.’ Booklist starred review

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