OCTOBER 2018 Burden Courtney Hargrave An extraordinary and powerful story of the unlikely friendship that formed between an African American reverend and a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan Description The extraordinary story of the friendship between African American reverend David Kennedy and Michael Burden, a Grand Wizard in the KKK, goes to the heart of the strand in American life that voted in Trump. For all its quaint, small-town charm, Laurens, South Carolina, has a troubled history. A town of bleak unemployment and poverty, it has a dark legacy of race riots and lynching. Its resistance to rolling back Apartheid-type laws was so fierce that federal military intervention was required. In March 1996, Michael Burdens opened up a new business: The Redneck Shop and KKK Museum. It was a fiery African American preacher, David Kennedy, who led the protests against it yet it was also Kennedy who, in Burden's hour of need, extended the hand of friendship and charity to him and his family. From there, an unlikely friendship sprang. Burden is a moving portrayal of this friendship, and the rocky path towards it. But it goes beyond just these two men. As a town, Laurens reflects the America that voted in Donald Trump. Courtney Hargrave provides a thoughtful and insightful exploration of Laurens and its inhabitants, examining both the deep fractures and troubles at its heart and the hope, warmth and humanity. About the Author Courtney Hargrave is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. She resides in New York City. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781408892626 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury OCTOBER 2018 Burden 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of Burden, plus free reading copy. Description About the Author Price: $223.92 ISBN: 9781472995544 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury OCTOBER 2018 Forest Dark Nicole Krauss From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) Description From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) A brilliant novel ' Philip Roth Impossible to put down ' Independent Dazzling ' Guardian Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, and a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert. To Epstein 's mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive and avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading. This transformation began in the wake of Epstein 's parents ' deaths, and continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage, his retirement from a New York legal firm, and the rapid shedding of his possessions. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton. Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks into the same hotel, hoping to unlock her writer 's block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey and change her in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humour, this is a profound, mesmerising, achingly beautiful novel of metamorphosis and self- realisation. About the Author Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of America 's most important novelists'. She is the author Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781408871812 of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and Format: Paperback The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France 's Prix du Meilleur Livre Dimensions: mm Etranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Medicis, and Femina prizes. Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb OCTOBER 2018 The Ninth Hour Alice McDermott From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn for those who love Colm Toiban, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler Description From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn for those who love Colm Toiban, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, catches the scent of fire doused with water and hurries to the scene: a gathered crowd, firemen, and the distraught young widow. Moved by the girl 's plight, and her unborn child, the wise nun finds Annie work in the convent 's laundry where, in turn, her daughter will grow up amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron. In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition and shame collude to erase Jim 's brief existence; and yet his suicide, although never mentioned, reverberates through many generations testing the limits of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness. In prose of startling radiance and precision, Alice McDermott tells a story that is at once wholly individual and universal in its understanding of the human condition. Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, The Ninth Hour is the crowning achievement of one of today 's finest writers. About the Author Alice McDermott is the award-winning author of seven previous novels: Someone (shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 and the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014, and longlisted for the National Book Award 2013), After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (winner of the National Book Award 1998), At Weddings and Wakes, That Night and A Bigamist 's Daughter. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times, and has also been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives with her family outside Price: $19.99 Washington DC. ISBN: 9781408854631 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb OCTOBER 2018 This Is How It Ends Eva Dolan Elegantly crafted, humane and thought-provoking. She 's top drawer ' Ian Rankin A searing contemporary thriller about betrayal, loyalty, loss and lies from one of the brightest stars in crime fiction Description Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week Elegantly crafted, humane and thought-provoking. She 's top drawer ' Ian Rankin This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end' About the Author Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager. The four novels in her Zigic and Ferreira series have been published to widespread critical acclaim: Tell No Tales and After You Die were shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award and After You Die was also longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. She lives in Cambridge. @eva_dolan Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781408886618 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: OCTOBER 2018 You Belong to Me Colin Harrison No one delivers a sharper thriller than the superb Colin Harrison' Mail on Sunday Description No one delivers a sharper thriller than the superb Colin Harrison' Mail on Sunday Her story, his trouble, begins in desire Paul Reeves is a successful New York lawyer with a seemingly charmed life. He has an adoring girlfriend, a beautiful apartment on the Upper West Side and a voracious appetite for rare and beautiful maps. But when his seductive, all-American neighbour Jennifer Mehraz wife of the suave but shadowy young businessman Ahmed Mehraz desperately pleads for his help, Paul is catapulted into Manhattan 's dangerous underworld. Behind its glamourous facade, this city is a dark and troubling place where anything can be bought for a high enough price... As past and present collide, devastating secrets are unearthed, loyalties put to the test and Paul will be forced to consider what he is willing to sacrifice to possess what and who he most desires. About the Author Colin Harrison is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers The Havana Room and Manhattan Nocturne, which was made into a film in 2016. He lives with his wife, novelist Kathryn Harrison, and their three children in Brooklyn, New York. Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781408886267 Format: Paperback Dimensions: mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb OCTOBER 2018 The Water Thief Claire Hajaj From the award-winning author of Ishmael 's Oranges comes a searing novel set in Africa, with a Graham Greene-esque moral conflict at its heart Description Who decides what is right' How do we judge our actions' And how do we live with ourselves when things go wrong' Following his father's death, troubled idealist Nick abandons his safe London life for a remote desert village in Africa, lending his engineering skills to build a children 's hospital.